"14. _Resolved_, That provision ought to be made for the admission of States lawfully arising without the limits of the United States, whether from a voluntary junction of government and territory, or otherwise, with the consent of a number of voices in the national legislature less than the whole. "15. _Resolved_, That provision ought to be made for the continuance of Congress, and their authorities and privileges, until a given day after the reform of the Articles of Union shall be adopted, and for the completion of all their engagements. "16. _Resolved_, That a republican constitution, and its existing laws, ought to be guaranteed to each State by the United States. "17. _Resolved_, That provision ought to be made for the amendment of the Articles of Union, whensoever it shall seem necessary. "18. _Resolved_, That the legislative, executive, and judiciary powers within the several States ought to be bound by oath to support the Articles of Union. "19. _Resolved_, That the amendments which shall be offered to the Confederation by the Convention ought, at a proper time or times after the approbation of Congress, to be submitted to an assembly or assemblies of representatives, recommended by the several legislatures, to be expressly chosen by the people to consider and decide thereon." CHAPTER V. ISSUE BETWEEN THE VIRGINIA AND THE NEW JERSEY PLANS.--HAMILTON'S PROPOSITIONS.--MADISON'S VIEW OF THE NEW JERSEY PLAN. The nature of the plan of government thus proposed--called generally in the proceedings of the Convention the Virginia plan--may be perceived from the descriptions that have now been given of the design and scope of its principal features, and of the circumstances out of which they arose. It purported to be a supreme and a national government; and we are now to inquire in what sense and to what extent it was so. Its powers, as we have seen, were to be distributed among the three departments of a legislative, an executive, and a judiciary. Its legislative body was to consist of two branches, one of which was to be chosen directly by the people of the States, the other by the State legislatures; but in both, the people of the States were to be represented in proportion to their numbers.