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Sherman's great compromise: Roger Sherman's brilliant proposal saved the 1787 Constitutional Convention from a hopeless deadlock and safeguarded against centralization of power at the federal level.(History--Greatness Of The Founders)
The stifling early summer heat in Philadelphia seemed apropos for the increasingly heated debate among the Constitutional Convention delegates. By early June 1787, the convention appeared hopelessly deadlocked. Delegates from the larger states wanted the new Constitution to apportion congressional representation by population, while those from the smaller states wanted to continue congressional representation by states as under the Articles of Confederation.
Virginia's James Madison and New York's Gouverneur Morris led the argument for representation by population. Madison called pure representation of the states "unjust" and "did not conceive any effectual ...
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