what was the Great Compromise and how did affect the legislature constucted in Virginia or New Jersey Plan?

Answer 1

The Virginia plan called for a legislature comprised solely by population. New Jersey's plan called for a legislature where each state had an equal # of votes. The Great Compromise split the difference - 1 house of each.

An irony is that with the Supreme Court decisions about one person, one vote, a state may not have a bicameral legislature where the upper house has an equal # of votes per county - even though that's exactly how the US Congress is set up. This is because the US Senate's composition is explicitly defined in the constitution, and a state may not be denied their equal representation without their consent (Article V). Thus, for the Senate to change, it would effectively require all states to agree.