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What did the Great Compromise or Connecticut Compromise do in our Constitution?

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Allowed for a two house congress: one based on 2 delegates from each state; the other, number of delegates based on population from each state
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The Connecticut Compromise merged the Virginia Plan, that favored the representation based on population of every single state; and the New Jersey Plan, that established every state as an equal. The Compromise ratified the importance of a bicameral legislature.

This Compromise let to the Article Five of the United States Constitution, which establishes the framework to make changes and amendments of the constitution.

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