An atrial septal defect (ASD) is an opening or hole in the wall that separates the two upper chambers of the heart.This wall is called the atrial septum. The hole causes oxygen-rich blood to leak from the left side of the heart to the right side.n atrial septal defect (ASD) is an opening or hole in the wall that separates the two upper chambers of the heart.
The Connecticut Compromise (also known as the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman's Compromise) was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution.
At the time, all the states except Pennsylvania had bicameral legislatures, so the delegates were familiar with the structure of Congress proposed by Sherman. Shermanâs plan pleased delegates from both the large and small states and became known as the Connecticut Compromise of 1787, or the Great Compromise.y Robert Longley. Perhaps the greatest debate undertaken by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 centered on how many representatives each state should have in the new government's lawmaking branch, the U.S. Congress.