True or false. also known as the sherman compromise or the connecticut compromise, the deal combined proposals from the virginia (large state) plan and the new jersey (small state) plan. according to the great compromise, there would be two national legislatures in a bicameral congress. members of the house of representatives would be allocated according to each state’s population and elected by the people. in the second body—the senate—each state would have two representatives regardless of the state’s size, and state legislatures would choose senators. (in 1913, the seventeenth amendment was passed, tweaking the senate system so that senators would be elected by the people.)