Mr. SHERMAN urged the equality of votes [in the Senate] not so much as a security for the small States; as for the State Govts.
Which could not be preserved unless they were represented & had a negative in the Genl. Government. He had no objection to the members in the [House] voting per capita, as had been suggested by [Mr. Gerry]. What did Roger Sherman contribute to the drafting of the Constitution? The Three-Fifths Compromise the Virginia Plan the Great Compromise the New Jersey Plan
Roger Sherman was an American politician from the state of Connecticut, who, being a delegate to the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention in 1787, proposed the system of organization of Congress that today is applied in the United States, and which has become a rule in great number of nations worldwide: the bicameral congress.
Thus, Sherman combined the two existing proposals in the Convention, which were at odds and threatened to spoil the conclave as a result of their differences. These were the New Jersey Plan, which favored sparsely populated states by establishing an equal representation system, and the Virginia Plan, which favored larger states by establishing a proportional representation system. Sherman, as a way to reconcile both proposals, devised a bicameral Congress, with each chamber adopting one of these plans. This arrangement was named the Great Compromise.
