Agreement which established the structure of the United States federal legislature
This article is about the agreement sometimes referred to as the Great Compromise. For the song by John Prine, see The Great Compromise (song).
The Connecticut Compromise (also known as the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman Compromise) was an agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation each state would have under the United States Constitution. It retained the bicameral legislature as proposed by Roger Sherman, along with proportional representation of the states in the lower house or House of Representatives, and it required the upper house or Senate to be weighted equally among the states; each state would have two representatives in the Senate.
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The ConnecticutCompromise (also known as the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman Compromise) was an agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention...
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Ellsworth helped to orchestrate what became known as the ConnecticutCompromise, or the Great Compromise. This plan combined the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey...
Great Compromise may refer to: The Great Compromise (song) by John Prine The Great Compromise (album) by The Junior Varsity The ConnecticutCompromise, provision...
slavery had been abolished. Finally, the delegates adopted the ConnecticutCompromise, which proposed a Congress with proportional representation in the...
Plan, Paterson and Madison's proposals were reconciled through the ConnecticutCompromise, which combined elements of each to create the current structure...
structure had functioned well in state governments. A compromise plan, the ConnecticutCompromise, was adopted with representatives chosen by population...
verge of collapse, Roger Sherman of Connecticut introduced what became known as the Connceticut (or Great) Compromise. Sherman's proposal called for a House...
main opponent of James Madison's Virginia Plan by introducing the ConnecticutCompromise that won the approval of both the more and less populous states...
proposal, based on providing each state with equal representation. The ConnecticutCompromise allowed for both plans to work together. Other controversies developed...
of the First Committee of Eleven, the Convention settled on the ConnecticutCompromise, creating a House of Representatives apportioned by population and...
day by a vote of 5–4 in what became known as the ConnecticutCompromise. The ConnecticutCompromise provided, among other things, that each state—regardless...
June 11 • Roger Sherman introduces the ConnecticutCompromise (also known as the Sherman or Great Compromise) which calls for proportional representation...
The Massachusetts Compromise was a solution reached in a controversy between Federalists and Anti-Federalists over the ratification of the United States...
than when the ConnecticutCompromise was adopted (7.35 as of the 1790 census), exaggerating the non-proportional component of the compromise allocation....
proposed a bicameral national legislature, and in the controversial ConnecticutCompromise, a 5–4 vote that gave small-population states disproportionate power...
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for the states. Eventually, the Convention reached the ConnecticutCompromise or Great Compromise, under which one house of Congress (the House of Representatives)...
Treaty of Paris, and U.S. Constitution Roger Sherman, representative of Connecticut, the only person to sign all four of the U.S. state papers: the Continental...
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While at the convention, Ellsworth played a role in fashioning the ConnecticutCompromise between the more populous states and the less populous states. He...
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