The Connecticut Compromise took both the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan, and merged them. It called for a two house (rather than a one house of both plans), and compromised both plans into one. In the Senate, the New Jersey plan was used, in which each state was only allowed 2 representatives each for basic equality, while in the House of Representatives, the Virginia Plan was used, to ensure that there was a proper ratio of representatives to the current population.
Connecticut Compromise, also known as Great Compromise, in United States history, the compromise offered by Connecticut delegates Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth during the drafting of the Constitution of the United States at the 1787 convention to solve the dispute between small and large states over representation
