USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -That is, each state’s representation in Congress would be based on its population. The alternative to the Virginia Plan, William Paterson’s New Jersey Plan, intended to give states equal representation in a one-bodied legislature.

Detailed explanation-2: -William Paterson’s New Jersey Plan proposed a unicameral (one-house) legislature with equal votes of states and an executive elected by a national legislature. This plan maintained the form of government under the Articles of Confederation while adding powers to raise revenue and regulate commerce and foreign affairs.

Detailed explanation-3: -The New Jersey Plan (also known as the Small State Plan or the Paterson Plan) was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented during the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

Detailed explanation-4: -John Trumballs’ The Signing of the Declaration of Independence is one of the best known images of the second Continental Congress, signed in the same room where William Paterson proposed in “The New Jersey Plan” eleven years later.