The solution to the Great Compromise of 1787, also known as the Connecticut Compromise, was to create a bi-cameral federal legislature whereby each state would send an equal number of delegates to the Senate and a representational number to the House of Representatives.
It was decided early in the Constitutional Convention that each state would send delegates to the national government. One of the big questions was determining how many would go from each state. The...
The solution to the Great Compromise of 1787, also known as the Connecticut Compromise, was to create a bi-cameral federal legislature whereby each state would send an equal number of delegates to the Senate and a representational number to the House of Representatives.
It was decided early in the Constitutional Convention that each state would send delegates to the national government. One of the big questions was determining how many would go from each state. The Virginia plan was to include a proportional number of delegates according to the state population. This would have provided more populace states with greater control of the government. However, under the New Jersey plan each state would send an equal number of delegates thereby protecting the smaller states interests in the federal government.
The solution was proposed by Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth, Connecticut's delegates to the convention. The Great Compromise was passed in July, 1787 by a one-vote margin.
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