The Great Compromise
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The Great Compromise or Connecticut Compromise was proposed by Connecticut delegate Roger Sherman to combine both the Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan.
virginia plan
The Great Compromise of 1787 settled the debate on how to choose the number of people representing each state in Congress. Originally, plans were for one house of Congress, but no settlement could be reached among those behind the Virginia Plan, and the New Jersey plan. That is, until Roger Sherman proposed the idea of a two house Congress, using ideas from both plans.
The plan was the Virginia plan
William Paterson proposed the New Jersey Plan to the Constitutional Convention in 1787.