New Jersey Plan

• Unicameral legislature (representation based on equality)
• Current Congress would be maintained with new powers granted.
• Executive Branch: elected by congress, would serve a single term and could be recalled by State governors.
• Judicial Branch: life time service, appointed by executives
  

The small states opposed the Virginia Plan, since it would have given overwhelming power to a few large states. They banded together and presented the New Jersey Plan, which called for a single body of Congress in which each state would be equally represented.