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CONNECTICUT COMPROMISE

CONNECTICUT COMPROMISE, which was based on a proposal by jurist and politician Roger Sherman of Connecticut, resolved an impasse in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 between large and small states over the apportionment of representation in the proposed senate. The larger states supported the Virginia Plan, which would create a bicameral legislature in which "the rights of suffrage … ought to be proportioned to the Quotas of contributions, or to the number of free inhabitants." Anticipating greater burdens from the centralization of power in a new national government, these states demanded a commensurate share of control. The small states, jealous of ...

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