virginia-plan
Virginia plan
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.
Compare Connecticut Compromise, New Jersey plan.
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