New Jersey plan

American  

noun

American History.

1. a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a single legislative house with equal representation for each state.

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Example Sentences

Good government and civil liberties groups across the political spectrum have announced their opposition to the New Jersey plan.

From Slate • Dec. 13, 2018

Terminal operators at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey plan to turn away containers if they aren’t certified, said Bethann Rooney, assistant director of the Port Authority’s commerce department.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2015

Union leaders say the New Jersey plan can still work, if the state does not reduce or defer its contributions again.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2014

The small states took the offensive on June 15, when Paterson presented the relatively cautious New Jersey plan.

From Time Magazine Archive

The New Jersey Plan.—The views of delegates from the small states were embodied in the New Jersey plan, which was laid before the convention by William Paterson.

From Government in the United States National, State and Local by Garner, James Wilford