Virginia plan

[ ver-jin-yuh plan ]

noun

, American History.

1. a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a legislature of two houses with proportional representation in each house and executive and judicial branches to be chosen by the legislature.

Example Sentences

The scheme known as the 'Virginia Plan' was adopted instead, and the convention adjourned.

From Project Gutenberg

The fifteen resolutions, constituting the "Virginia Plan," are in Madison's handwriting.

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