MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION THE GREAT COMPROMISE
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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: -During the Constitutional Convention, delegates debated about how states should be represented in the United States’ new Congress. The New Jersey Plan definition: a unicameral (one-house) Congress where each state would be represented equally, one vote per state.
Detailed explanation-3: -The issue was finally resolved with the compromise embodied in the bicameral Congress-representation by population in the House of Representatives, and equality of states in the Senate.
Detailed explanation-4: -New Jersey proposed that all states have an equal number of representatives. Under the New Jersey Plan, Congress would consist of only one house, to be elected by the state legislatures, not the people.
Detailed explanation-5: -June 15, 1787 | New Jersey Plan introduced; Patterson submitted 9 Resolutions. The Plan restored the single chamber of the Articles of Confederation with each State represented equally regardless of population size. The power to tax and regulate interstate commerce was added.