He was understated, but had a quiet common sense. So during the lead up to the Constitution, the big states and the small states battling back and forth, he Roger Sherman came up with what became known as the Connecticut Compromise. In the House of Representatives, proportional representation, good for the big states. In the U.S. senate, everybody had equal representation, important for the small states. (00:43–00:51)
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Asserts that Roger Sherman developed the Connecticut Compromise.
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