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The Great Compromise created the dual system of state representation in U.S. Congress. It is also called the Connecticut Compromise because Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth were Connecticut's delegates. The compromise addressed disputes between larger and smaller states - with the Senate having two members from each state and the House of Representatives having representation based on population. In determining how to count population, the Three-fifths Compromise said three-fifths of each state's population of enslave people would be counted.
See our guides on the U.S. Constitution as well.
Collected Works of Roger Sherman
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Friends of the Constitution: writings of the "other" Federalists, 1787-1788
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Papers of James Madison
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