The Connecticut Compromise created the United States Senate and the House of Representatives. The Senate will have equal representation of the people of each state, while the House of Representatives will be elected in proportion to population.
Slaves would count as part of the population.
Each state would have two representatives in the Senate.
The president could veto laws.
Congress would have two houses that both had to pass a given law.
The House of Representatives would have its members elected based on population.
Congress would appoint ambassadors.
When were at Philadelphia at the Constiutional COnvention, working on this new government! one of the biggest issued the Founding Fathers had, was overrepresentation. Who was going to have say in Congress? The bigger states wanted to send more people. The smaller states knew they'd get overrun on all policies, by the big states. So the small states favored what to be knows as the New Jersey Plan...It says, "Let's have just ONE house of Congress and in that one house, everybody has equal protection. Every state has 1 vote, no matter size." Big states did not like that! They favored the Virginia plan. They wanted two houses and both houses will be filledd based on population.
Then we came up with the Connecticut Compromise. It said we will have two houses and it will give the little states a house, where it's equal and a big state house, where it's based on population.
Roger Sherman and Olliver Ellsworth, delegates from Connecticut are the framers of the Great Compromise or the Connecticut Compromise.
The Great Compromise allowed the framers of the Constitution to create a Congress that would represent both large and small states fairly. It is also known as the Connecticut Compromise.
The great Compromise, or Connecticut Compromise, set up Congress by havin a fight.
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The Connecticut Compromise was also called the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman's Compromise.
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"The Connecticut Compromise, otherwise know as the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman's Compromise, occurred on May 29, 1787."
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