Great Compromise, also known as the Connecticut Compromise, was one of several major agreements reached in the drafting of the United States Constitution . The compromise settled a disagreement between large and small states that threatened the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
Delegates to the convention from the large states disagreed with those from small states about representation in the national legislature. The larger states favored the Virginia Plan, under which population would determine the number of representatives a state could send to the legislature. The small states supported the New Jersey Plan, which proposed that all the states would have an equal number of representatives.
The Connecticut delegates suggested a compromise that settled the problem. Their plan provided for equal representation in the Senate , along with representation in proportion to population in the House of Representatives .
