It was a plan to give every state an equal amount of representation. New Jersey established this plan in opposition to the Virginia Plan which wanted to give states representation based on population and the wealth of the citizens. They both wanted unicameral legislatives, and the Connecticut Compromise came in and proposed to have a bicameral legislature (Senate and House of Reps).
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The New Jersey plan proposed a government with a unicameral legislature, an executive committee, and generally sovereign states.
The New Jersey plan proposed a government with a unicameral legislature, an executive committee, and generally sovereign states.
The Virginia Plan proposed that the new legislature have representation based on a states population. The New Jersey Plan proposed that the new legislature let each state have the same number of representatives.
William Patterson was the man who proposed the New Jersey plan in 1787. The New Jersey Plan and the Virginia plans clashed and were in great controversy. These plans were proposed because the delegates that met in 1787 wanted to work out a new plan of government.
William Paterson's plan was called the New Jersey or Paterson plan and it countered the Virginia plan and it proposed a national legislature that, ignoring differences in size and population, gave equal voice to all the states.
It was a plan to give every state an equal amount of representation. New Jersey established this plan in opposition to the Virginia Plan which wanted to give states representation based on population and the wealth of the citizens. They both wanted unicameral legislatives, and the Connecticut Compromise came in and proposed to have a bicameral legislature (Senate and House of Reps).
He knelt on one knee to propose to her. He tried to propose a compromise, but they wanted nothing to do with it.
No. The "Connecticut Compromise" used aspects of both the Virginia (large state) Plan and the New Jersey (small state) Plan and created a bicameral legislature.
a provision of the New Jersey Plan?
Virginia was a heavily populated state and New Jersey was not. Virginia proposed congressional representation based upon population; New Jersey proposed equal representation of all states regardless of population.
The New Jersey Plan