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Why was the Connecticut compromise called the great compromise

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Their so-called Great Compromise (or Connecticut Compromise in honor of it's architects, Connecticut delegates Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth) provided a dual system of congressional representation. In the House of Representatives each state would be assigned a number of seats in proportion to it's population.

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