HIST-UA 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: U.S. Bancorp, Grand Committee, Connecticut Compromise
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The great compromise tried to solve the difficult problem of representation of the states. It would be a grand committee that would have a single delegate from each state. It wouldn"t be like the virginia plan with a national legislature of two houses. There would be a lower house which would be based on population of the state. There would be more representatives from the larger states. Then the upper house was decided from the lower house under no system of representation, and this was a problem because the smaller states would not have many members in the upper house. The compromise let the states be represented in the lower house with population, and letting each slave counted as three-fifths of a person. The upper house would let each state have two members each. This stopped all the arguing and all the men compromised: separation of powers.
