Countering the Virginia Plan, which proposal for new government strengthened the Articles by providing Congress with the authority to regulate commerce and to directly tax imports and paper items?

a. Rhode Island Plan

b. New Jersey Plan

c. Connecticut Compromise

d. Florida Plan

New Jersey plan

Explanation:

The new Jersey plan was a plan that proposed the structure of the US federal government. It was prepared by William Paterson and presented at the Constitutional Convention in 1787.

It was prepared in response to the Virginia plan. The New Jersey plan called for two houses of congress elected on the according to population.

The less populated states were against giving control of the national government to more populous states and hence proposed an New Jersey plan.

The New Jersey plan proposed for a unicameral legislature in which one vote was given to each state in the congress to distribute power equally among the states. It showed that the states were independent entities and they were individually free while entering USA.

Along with other provisions it gave congress the authority to collect taxes based on the population (Free inhabitants and three fifths of slaves of the state).