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Virgin'ia plan"



Amer. Hist.
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. Cf. Connecticut Compromise, New Jersey plan.

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