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Connecticut Compromise
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Impact
This compromise created our government to be bicameral. Two houses between the Senate and The House of Representatives.
Roger Sherman
Oliver Ellsworth
Bibliography
Facts
- Themes at the Constitutional Convention: 5. The Connecticut Compromise. N.p., n.d. Web, 8 Feb. 2016
- Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 9 Feb. 2016.
- "ConnecticutHistory.org." ConnecticutHistoryorg The Connecticut Compromise Today in History July 16 Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Feb. 2016.
Who: Roger Sherman & Oliver Ellsworth
What: equal representation between all states
Where: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
When: July 16, 1787
Significance
This is important because it brought about the idea of fair representation in each state no matter the geographical size of the state. It brought together the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan.
The House of Representatives is elected by population.
Candidates of the Senate are nominateed by State legislature and then elected by the House of Representatives.
Roger Sherman was an American Lawyer and a Founding Father of the United States from Massachusettes. He had the idea for states to have equal representation.
Oliver Ellsworth was a lawyer and politician from Connecticut who was the third chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He is the creator of the name the "United States Government"