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How did the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan each propose to structure the new national legislature ?

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The Virginia Plan proposed a bicameral legislature, a legislative branch with two chambers. Under the New Jersey Plan, the unicameral legislature with one vote per state was inherited from the Articles of Confederation. This position reflected the belief that the states were independent entities.

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