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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.



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The Prince George’s proposal suggests the team could, as in the Virginia plan, get a cut of taxes generated at the new development — a feature that has not been publicly discussed.

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They also discussed murdering a law enforcement officer in an effort to obtain gear for the Virginia plan, authorities said.

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The Virginia plan does not appear to endorse that approach.

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All of which serves as a precursor to the type of resistance Kaine and Warner are likely to encounter from Senate Republicans should the Virginia Plan make any gains.

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He stressed that the Virginia Plan wasn’t only about mass shootings, pointing to more frequent, even daily tragedies such as the 9-year-old girl shot and killed two years ago at a Richmond park.

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