Edmund Randolph of Virginia proposed the number of representatives for a state would be determined by the population and the amount of finances the state provides the federal government. This became known as the Virginia plan. The smaller state opposed the Virginia plan feeling they would be under represented and taken over by the larger states. William Paterson purposed a new plan, referred to as the New Jersey plan, suggesting each state would have equal representation regardless of size. Both sides found it hard to find compromise. Smaller states even threatened to divide the union and find alliances in other countries. On July 16 Connecticut representatives, Rodger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth, proposed a compromise. Which would come to be known as The Great Compromise laid out two form of representation. The House of Representatives where the number of representatives for each state would be based on states population and the Senate where each state would have the same number of representatives. Some state still found fault with this compromise most agreed avoiding a separation of the new
Edmund Randolph of Virginia proposed the number of representatives for a state would be determined by the population and the amount of finances the state provides the federal government. This became known as the Virginia plan. The smaller state opposed the Virginia plan feeling they would be under represented and taken over by the larger states. William Paterson purposed a new plan, referred to as the New Jersey plan, suggesting each state would have equal representation regardless of size. Both sides found it hard to find compromise. Smaller states even threatened to divide the union and find alliances in other countries. On July 16 Connecticut representatives, Rodger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth, proposed a compromise. Which would come to be known as The Great Compromise laid out two form of representation. The House of Representatives where the number of representatives for each state would be based on states population and the Senate where each state would have the same number of representatives. Some state still found fault with this compromise most agreed avoiding a separation of the new