Refer to the passage.

7. Resolved, that the right of suffrage in the first branch of the national Legislature ought not to be according to the rule established in the Articles of Confederation, but according to some equitable ratio of representation—namely, in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens and inhabitants of every age, sex, and condition including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and three-fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not paying taxes in each State.

8. Resolved, that the right of suffrage in the second branch of the national Legislature ought to be according to the rule established for the first.

—Virginia Plan, 1787

What point of debate did these provisions of the Virginia Plan raise at the Constitutional Convention?

A. Northern states opposed changes to the tax system.
B. Large states opposed the creation of a bicameral legislature.
C. Slave states opposed changes to the Articles of Confederation.
D. Small states opposed changes to the system of representation.