The so-called Great Compromise provided for a dual system ... Connecticut delegates Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth.) In 1787, this was an entirely new approach – one that managed to prevent ...

The American nation under the US Constitution began with a compromise that, among other things, quelled the founding fathers’ anxieties over slavery and racial equality before the law.

The so-called Great Compromise provided for a dual system ... Connecticut delegates Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth. When Sherman advanced their plan, Benjamin Franklin agreed that, while ...

Connecticut’s Roger Sherman was a man ... At the convention in August 1787, Sherman and South Carolina’s John Rutledge fashioned the important compromise on navigation laws and slave trade.