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 ...

"The impetus for this project came as a result of Roger Sherman being inducted into the Connecticut Hall of Fame one year ago," she said. "The project has also been a great opportunity for our ...

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.

Roger Sherman bridged the gap on June 29, 1787. It was immediately hailed as The Great Compromise. From his language came our bicameral Congress. It created a system where every citizen is equal ...