Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Three Constitutions of Connecticut, 1638-9, 1662, 1818: Messages of the Governor, Rejected Amendments to the Constitution, Act Calling Constitutional Convention, Proclamation of Governor, Roll of Delegates, 1901
The constitutional history of Connecticut properly be gins With the adoption, on the fourteenth of January, 1638-39, of the F undamental Orders, ' by which the inhabitants and residents of Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield' became associated and conjoined to be as one Public State or Com monwealth, ' for the establishment of an orderly and decent government, according to God, to order and dispose of the affairs of the people at all seasons as occasion shall require.' (dr. Trumbull's Historical Notes on the Constitutions.)
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