Roger Sherman believed the President should be appointed by the legislature, because he saw the Presidency as an office whose sole duty was to carry out what Congress decreed. He felt that the President should not be accountable to anyone but Congress since he would be in effect Congress's agent and Congress has the supreme power of government.
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The Great Compromise.
I believe Roger Sherman was from Connecticut.
Roger Sherman and Olliver Ellsworth, delegates from Connecticut are the framers of the Great Compromise or the Connecticut Compromise.
Roger Sherman was a Federalist. Oddly enough, he was a lawyer, but had no formal legal education. He did, however, get an Honorary MA from Yale in 1768.
Roger Sherman was a patriot.