Connecticut Compromise
The Connecticut Compromise (also known as the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman's Compromise) was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. It retained the bicameral legislature as proposed by Roger Sherman, along with proportional representation in the lower house, but required the upper house to be weighted equally between the states. Each state would have two representatives in the upper house.
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- The Bicameral Legislature and the U.S. Constitution
Article One of the U.S. Constitution established a bicameral legislature with a House of Representatives and a Senate.
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- CONNECTICUT COMPROMISE: An entry from Charles Scribner's Sons' Dictionary of American History - Theodore M. Whitfield
- The Connecticut compromise: Roger Sherman, the author of the plan of equal representation of the states in the... - George Frisbie Hoar
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