RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia's Democratic-led Senate on Tuesday passed constitutional amendments on abortion and voting rights that were quickly lambasted by Republicans who could use the issues as ...
Under the Virginia Plan, population would determine representation ... which will ever subsist between them." When the Constitutional Convention assembled on the morning of September 17, 1787 ...
The federal question jurisdiction made its first appearance at the Constitutional Convention in the Virginia Plan, which would have authorized federal courts to hear “questions which may involve ...