Virginia plan

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noun American History.

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.

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The plan is to stretch it out as long as possible, then probably forget about it, and then suddenly remember it.
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The various members met for the first time when they traveled to Gambia at the beginning of December to carry out their plan.
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Her new comments will only add to ongoing speculation that the Yorks plan, one day, to remarry.
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Even though clerks in Virginia, Colorado, Utah, and other states have been doing exactly that.
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He was long a correspondent of the National Intelligencer and other papers, residing in Virginia.
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Then follows an account of the life of the Jesuit prisoners, in Virginia and England.
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The pipe has a modern look and is altogether unlike those found by the English in use among the Indians in Virginia.
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In 1622 a monopoly of the importation of tobacco was granted to the Virginia and Somers Island, companies.
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Virginia leaf still continues to flourish, and to-day it is the great agricultural product of the State.
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