This delegate from Connecticut was responsible for introducing the Great Compromise between the large states and the small states, and the 3/5ths Compromise between the Northern states and the Southern States:

THE RATIFICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION AND THE NEW US GOVERNMENT

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This delegate from Connecticut was responsible for introducing the Great Compromise between the large states and the small states, and the 3/5th’s Compromise between the Northern states and the Southern States:

A	James Madison
B	William Patterson
C	Roger Sherman
D	Ben Franklin

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Their so-called Great Compromise (or Connecticut Compromise in honor of its architects, Connecticut delegates Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth) provided a dual system of congressional representation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Roger Sherman, a Connecticut politician and Superior Court judge, is best remembered as the architect of the Connecticut Compromise, which prevented a stalemate between states during the creation of the United States Constitution.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Connecticut Compromise (also known as the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman Compromise) was an agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation each state would have under the United States Constitution.

Detailed explanation-4: -Why were Southern delegates to the Constitutional Convention willing to accept the Three-Fifths Compromise? It allowed the South to expand its industrial output.

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