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Why Did the New Jersey Plan Contain a Proposal for a Legislature

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Why did the New Jersey Plan contain a proposal for a legislature with equal representation per state?


A) New Jersey prospered economically under the Articles of Confederation, which had such a system.
B) New Jersey had relatively little population and would therefore gain more representation under an equal system.
C) New Jersey was a slave state and the Three-Fifths Compromise was going to strip it of representation.
D) New Jersey had negotiated a separate treaty with the British that it wanted the new Congress to ratify.
E) Antifederalists controlled the New Jersey legislature and they favored equal representation per state.

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