The Great Compromise, agreed upon during the Constitutional Convention, ________.
The Connecticut Compromise was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. The legislature would have two houses. One would be directly elected by the people and the second would selected by the first house from people nominated by the state legislatures. The Great Compromise combined these two plans creating our current legislature with two houses, one based on population and elected by the people and the other house allowing two senators per state being appointed by state legislatures.