USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -The New Jersey Plan proposed a unicameral (single chamber) legislature with equal representation, and would have revised the Articles of Confederation to keep more power in the hands of the states instead of a centralized government.

Detailed explanation-3: -It established an annually elected two-House Legislature composed of a General Assembly with three representatives from each county and a Legislative Council with one member per county. All State officials, including the Governor, were appointed by the two Houses in a joint meeting.

Detailed explanation-4: -In response, William Paterson proposed what became known as the New Jersey Plan, presenting it to the Convention on June 15. The centerpiece of Paterson’s plan was a unicameral (one-house) legislature in which each state had a single vote.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.