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New Jersey

The New Jersey Plan proposed equal representation for every state in Congress.

Capital Trenton. December 18, 1787. Order 3.

Militia. Assembly provided for militia training in 1668 (Quaker settlers in later West Jersey largely ignored militia laws); militia with Washington at Trenton and Princeton, 1776–77.

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