Roger Sherman's Contribution To The Constitutional Convention

Roger Sherman was one of the most powerful members of the Constitutional Convention. Even though he was one of the most active members at the Constitutional Convention He was not known for his actions as the Constitutional Convention because he didn’t keep records of his experiences there. When Sherman came to the Constitutional Convention, he didn’t want to make a new constitution; he wanted to modify it to make the current government different. “The problem with the old government was not that it had acted foolishly or threatened anybody’s liberties, but that it had simply been unable to enforce its decrees” was what Sherman said about the old government. He also did not see the reason for the bicameral legislature that the Virginia plan
The two options for the legislative branch was to have equal representation in all of the states or to have, the bigger states have more voting power than the smaller states. Sherman did not want ordinary people to participate in the national government and told them that the people “should have as little to do as may be about the Government They want information and are constantly liable to be misled”. Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17 in 1706 and died in the 1790s. When he was eight Benjamin Franklin was attending a grammar, but had to work when he turned 10. He worked as an apprentice printer for his brother James and published his first article anonymously in 1721. When Benjamin was young, he liked to read and he was skeptical. With his articles, he made fun of the people of Boston and was soon not liked by many people of the city, including his brother. Because few people liked him in Boston, he ran away to New York but moved on to Philadelphia at the age of 16 hoping to find work in a printer's