Multiple Choice
Why did the New Jersey Plan at the Constitutional Convention retain the single-house Congress of the Confederation?
A) to ensure each state had equal representation in Congress
B) to give states a veto over acts of Congress
C) because such a legislature would check the power of the masses
D) because Madison distrusted having congressmen popularly elected
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