Many decisions were made in the Continental Convention of 1787 that helped build the United States of America we have today. The attendee who had the biggest impact on the convention other than James Madison was a delegate named Roger Sherman. He was a very influential person who had many accomplishments, among them: being a highly respected politician, a lawyer who graduated from Yale University, a senator from Connecticut, a Newton County surveyor, an associate justice of the Supreme Court and a member of the Continental Congress. All of these things would help shape the man who would change the United States of America forever. According to Thomas Kindig in the article, Signers of the Declaration of Independence; Sherman was one of the convention's most outspoken and persistent members. In Madison's notes, he is credited with approximately one hundred and thirty-eight speeches in which he forcefully preached federalism. He proposed what is now known as “The Great Compromise” or “The Connecticut Compromise.” With his compromise, he shaped our government and guided America into the great world power it is today. On May 25, 1787, in a State House in Philadelphia, fifty-five delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies gathered in efforts to amend the ineffective Articles of Confederation. This meeting was called the Continental Convention of 1787. After the Articles of Confederation, it was clear that a unicameral legislature would not support the needs of all states, maintaining and unifying them. Many ideas have emerged to offer a solution to the contentious debate over how many representatives each state should have in the U.S. Congress. The... half of the document......lem, Thomas R. “Sherman's Great Compromise: Roger Sherman's brilliant proposal saved the Constitutional Convention of 1787 from a hopeless stalemate and protected it from the centralization of power to federal level. " The New American. Long View Publications, June 28, 2004. Web. June 29, 2011. Kindig, Thomas. "Signers of the Declaration of Independence: Brief Biographies on Each of the 56 Signers of the Declaration." Ushistory.org. Independence Hall Association , 2011. Web. June 26, 2011. Longley, Robert. “The Great Compromise of 1787: Created a Congress.” About.com. New York Times Company, 2011. Web. June 29, 2011. Monte, Steve of the United States.” USConstitution.net, 3 January 2011. Web. 29 June 2011. Law Libraries of the State of Connecticut. “Roger Sherman and the Connecticut Compromise.” , 2011. Web. 29 June 2011.