Roger Sherman was a lawyer and statesman during colonial America. He is the only person to have signed all four of the United States’ great state papers: the Continental Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution. He also served...
He, however, corrected himself, lest what he had said might compromise his own preeminence49, and added that I had joined him merely to gain that experience so necessary to the perfection of all great minds. This done, he commenced to give an account of his horse and pig, whose rare ...
Sherman promoted what came to be known as the Connecticut (or Great) Compromise, providing for a bicameral legislature using a dual system of representation. His plan helped save the convention from disintegrating and established the basis of the present system of federal government. Sherman served ...