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Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 13 P13 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 106 FOUNDATIONS OF . LAW PRIMARY DOCUMENTS ORIGINS OF . GOVERNMENT NORTHWEST ORDINANCE punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted provided always that any person escaping into the same from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original states such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid. Be it ordained by the authority aforesaid that the resolutions of the 23d of April 1784 relative to the subject of this ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed and declared null and void. Done by the United States in Congress assembled the 13th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven and of their sovereignty and independence the twelfth. Source Francis Newton Thorpe ed. The Federal and State Constitutions Colonial Charters and Other Organic Laws of the States Territories and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America vol. 2 1909 pp. 957-962. GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN LAW 3rd Edition FOUNDATIONS OF . LAW Origins of . Government The VirGinia or Randolph Plan At the Constitutional Convention in 1787 a deep division emerged between the large more populated states and the smaller states over the apportionment of the national legislature. The Virginia Plan also known as the Randolph Plan after its sponsor edmund jennings Randolph called for a two-house legislature with representation of each state based on its population or wealth. ROGER SHERMAN along with OLIVER ELLSWORTH proposed the Connecticut or Great Compromise. This plan created a bicameral legislature with proportional representation in the lower house and equal representation in the upper house. All revenue measures would originate in the lower house. The compromise was accepted and the Constitution was soon approved by the convention. k The Virginia or Randolph Plan Virginia Governor Edmund Randolph then commented on the .