History Day - Debate and Diplomacy

Roger Sherman and The Connecticut Compromise or the Great Compromise

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.

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