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Do you know the purpose of The New Jersey Plan? Believe it or not, it has nothing to do with The Jersey Shores. Although we'd like to believe that William Paterson, who presented the plan, also loved tanning and body-building. A Shmooper can dream, right?
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Thank you We sneak And here's your shmoop dooz your
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brought to you by the new jersey plan It involves
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more than just going to the shore The new jersey
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planted which of the following and here the pencil answers
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around the numerals He's buddy all right Okay here we
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go Well the new jersey plan was the small states
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answer to the virginia plan which created a strong national
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government and assign representation based strictly on population let's See
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which of these answer choices described what the miniature members
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of the union wanted to try on for size Did
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the new jersey plan one i propose a bicameral legislature
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Well actually the new jersey plan wanted to retain the
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unicameral structure from the articles of confederation where each state
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got one vote but zero camels Weird But either way
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we can rule out option one was the new jersey
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plan different because it to proposed a plural executive will
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imagine a group of friends arguing over where to go
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to dinner Except now they have to decide how to
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provide national defense and how to build roads and how
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to sign treaties well to protect against a strong government
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dominated by big states New jersey plan imposed a plural
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executive committee of folks rabbit and one single president Looks
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like they were in favor of the whole two plus
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heads are better than one thing So moving on Did
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the new jersey plan three allow the national government toe
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overturn state laws well the new jersey plan protected the
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small states from a strong central government so definitely didn't
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want national lawmakers interfering in local bees wax So three
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can go ahead and buzz off And lastly with the
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new jersey plan for have given state governors and congress
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the power to remove an executive in order to prevent
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a tyrannical leader That new jersey plan gave congress at
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the prompting of state governors the power to remove members
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of the executive commitee kind of like an old school
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survivor from new jersey Plan proposed a plural executive and
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gave congress the power to remove those executives Well that
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means the correct answer is even though the new jersey
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plan wasn't actually adopted neither was the jersey shore plan 00:02:18.245 --> [endTime] Seriously they can't just pardon me
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