8th Annotation

"The Avalon Project". Yale Law School Lillian Goldman Law Library. 11-25-08 http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/vatexta.asp.

Historians have proved that James Madison produced the Virginia Plan, but Edmund Randolph proposed it during the convention. In the personal notes of James Madison it explains that the plan would consist of a National Legislature that would have two branches. The first branch would be elected by the people and the second branch would be elected by the people of the first. When arriving at the debate of the Executive Branch, Edmund Randolph stated, "that a National Executive be instituted; to be chosen by the National Legislature for the term of years, 5" Obviously, the part was not used in the Constitution, but the first half of this plan is an important key to the government we know today.