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True or False: The Constitutional Convention rejected Roger Sherman's compromise blending the Virginia and New Jersey Plans

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False, The Constitutional Convention supported Roger Sherman's compromise blending the Virginia and New Jersey Plans. This compromise is known as the "Great Compromise" or the "Connecticut Compromise" and helped to resolve the dispute over representation in the federal legislature. 
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Roger Sherman’s compromise was known as the Connecticut Compromise or The Great Compromise, was a plan that was proposed by Sherman and that was agreed. It established a two-house legislature and it was the solution to the debate between larger and smaller states over representation.

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