The Constitutional Convention adopts the “Connecticut Compromise” between the rival Virginia and New Jerseys Plans: the legislature will be bicameral, with a lower house based on State population, and an upper house based on equal State suffrage.
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Authority:
Articles of Confederation, Article XIII
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 40.
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