The Connecticut Compromise.

The article suggests that U.S. legislator Roger Sherman of Connecticut proposed a compromise regarding representation in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. The author notes disputes regarding proportional representation in the U.S. Continental Congress and discusses his correspondence with historian Henry Cabot Lodge regarding whether Sherman or attorney Oliver Ellsworth proposed the compromise, which came to be known as the Connecticut Compromise. The author suggests Ellsworth supported Sherman's proposed compromise during the constitutional convention and notes references to Sherman's proposal in the diary of former U.S. president John Adams.