Government
Morgan Goodman
Foundations of Government
In U.S history, the basic colony from 1639 to 1662, formally adopted (Jan 14, 1639) by representatives from the towns of Hartford and Windsor, meeting at Hartford. The preamble bound the habits of the three towns to be governed in all things by the orders that followed and these were similar to the statue laws else where in New England, differing only in that they were shaped into brief, clear, compact frame of government. The government or "combination" as Hooker called it, confirmed the system that had functioned in the three towns since 1636 and was very like the Massachusetts model. The main concern of the fundamental orders was the welfare of the community, the individual always had to give way if the needs of the community at large so required. This provided frame work for the government in Connecticut. For years prior to the adoption of the Fundamental orders. Connecticut towns were for med by puritan Congregationalists. The Connecticut colonys established religion.
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Fundamental Orders adopted in Connecticut
In Hartford, Connecticut, the first constitution in the American colonies, the “Fundamental Orders,” is adopted by representatives of the towns of Wethersfield, Windsor, and Hartford.
The Dutch discovered the Connecticut River in 1614, but English Puritans, under a grant from the Massachusetts General Court, largely accomplished European settlement of the region as they flocked to the Connecticut valley from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
The Dutch discovered the Connecticut River in 1614, but English Puritans, under a grant from the Massachusetts General Court, largely accomplished European settlement of the region as they flocked to the Connecticut valley from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Constitution
It has the features of a written constitution, and is considered by some as the first written Constitution in the Western tradition, thus earning Connecticut its nickname of The Constitution State.
Laws
At first, the Connecticut settlements were governed as part of Massachusetts Bay. In 1639, three towns – Hartford, Windsor, and Wethersfield – agreed to the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, a covenant that set up a central government for the young colony. Again, power remained with the people of the towns.