White merchants, small landowners, and former whigs.
New Jersey Plan proposed by William Paterson of New Jersey
Its proposal followed the Virginia Plan (written by James Madison and presented by Edmund Randolph) with a two-house legislature with representation that depended on state population.
<span> He modernized the country, importing western technology and ideas. He also turned it into European power, by defeating Sweden( a local superpower of that day) in the Great Northern War. Finally, he established royal authority over the church.
Other, minor reforms, included having the nobility shave their beards.Finally, and perhaps most famously,he built the city of Saint Petersburg, later Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg again.
On the negative side, he was a paranoid tyrant who solidified Czarist absolutism, but as Lenin later said, to make an omelette, one has to break a few eggs. </span>
The answer is D. to maintain the old way of life
