Connecticut Compromise

This article is about the agreement sometimes referred to as the Great Compromise. For the song by John Prine, see The Great Compromise (song).

A portrait of Roger Sherman, who authored the agreement

The Connecticut Compromise, also known as the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman Compromise, was an agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation each state would have under the United States Constitution. It retained the bicameral legislature as proposed by Roger Sherman, along with proportional representation of the states in the lower house or House of Representatives, and it required the upper house or Senate to be weighted equally among the states; each state would have two members in the Senate.