The New Jersy Plan

            New Jersey was a small colony and opposed the Virginia plan, which I will discuss later; because it helped the larger states have more power than others would have. The reason for this being was that they believed that all should have equal representation. The main reason that they were angry with Brittan during the revolution was because of no representation but they were still getting taxed and this is what the smaller colonies were facing no equal representation. This New Jersey plan was written and proposed by William Patterson who was from New Jersey. This plan consisted of every one having and equal vote and equal representation in at least one house. This was argued that this should happen mainly because everyone was equal and all should be equal. This plan required only one House and was turned down. But later as time went on we see that some of the plan was taken into consideration and we have the Senate with each state being equally represented. Madison was against this mainly because this contradicted what he liked and talked about and if the small states that followed him were to go on board with this he could possible loose his plan.