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Principally authored by William Paterson of New Jersey, the New Jersey Plan was an important alternative to the Virginia Plan proposed by James Madison and Edmund Randolph of Virginia. [2] Its proposals would have created a political entity similar to the modern-day European Union .
1855 J. H. Colton Company map of Virginia that predates the West Virginia partition by seven years.. Numerous state partition proposals have been put forward since the 1776 establishment of the United States that would partition an existing U.S. state or states so that a particular region might either join another state or create a new state.
He represented New Jersey at the 1787 Philadelphia Convention, where he proposed the New Jersey Plan, which would have provided for equal representation among the states in Congress. After the ratification of the Constitution, Paterson served in the United States Senate from 1789 to 1790, helping to draft the Judiciary Act of 1789 .
In its place, Martin proposed language taken from the New Jersey Plan that was unanimously approved by the convention: "that the Legislative acts of the US made by virtue and pursuance of the articles of Union, and all treaties made and ratified under the authority of the US shall be the supreme law of the respective States . . . and that the . . .
No one has fought New York's congestion pricing plan harder than New Jersey. Garden State politicians have proposed federal bans on congestion pricing, revenge tolls on New Yorkers entering the ...
New Jersey lawmakers wanted to ask voters whether to ban new fossil fuel-fired power plants. A state Senate committee on Monday advanced a bill that would authorize a public referendum on amending ...
June 15, William Paterson (NJ) proposed the Convention minority's New Jersey Plan. It was weighted toward the interests of the smaller, less populous states. The intent was to preserve the states from a plan to "destroy or annihilate" them. The New Jersey Plan was purely federal, authority flowed from the states.
New Jersey residents could forfeit constitutional rights, the state could lose $1.3 billion in taxes and more than 470,000 people could be sent to detention centers if President-elect Donald Trump ...