Talk:Articles of Confederation (The Disunited States of America)

The New Jersey (Small State) Plan
I suggest consideration of the New Jersey plan as your model. It set up a governing body much like the United Nations, but with the power to collect taxes (mostly from foreign goods) from the states. This would have been by contractual agreement (interstate treaty) with the states remaining sovereign entities. This could have been changed in committee to provide for two "houses" in the legislature (as the Virginia Plan had) with or without the compromise that counted three-fifths of the slaves as persons for tax purposes. This compromise ended up giving the southern states an edge in pre-civil war times. It also gave the nation more taxes than if free persons alone had been counted. SouthWriter 20:53, March 30, 2010 (UTC)