Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ... be somewhat unique. I do not need to remind this company that Connecticut, often called the "Constitution State," the "Land of Steady Habits," or the "Wooden Nutmeg State," is not only a New England State and one of the thirteen original colonies, but that some of its settlements had been in existence over one hundred and fifty years at the time of the Federal Constitution. Like the United States, Connecticut grew, developed an3 flourished. Our records began in 1636, and were continued with the records of the Connecticut Colony on the Connecticut River organized from the three river towns--Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield--each at first individual. This colony was organized through the efforts of Thomas Hooker and the Fundamental Orders, adopted January 1638-39, the first written constitution emanating from a free people who acknowledged no authority over them save that of God. These Fundamental Orders, formulated by the men of Windsor, Wethersfield and Hartford, in convention assembled under the direction of Thomas Hooker, are now generally acknowledged, I believe, to be the basis of practically all constitutions governing free peoples, which have been formulated even to this day. When Thomas Hooker stated, "In matters of greater consequence which concern the common good, a general council chosen by all to transact business which concern all, I conceive under favor most suitable to rule and most safe for the relief of the whole," he launched the principles of modern representative government. This fundamental statement of Hooker, surrounded by the seals representing the evolution of the seals of Connecticut, forms the central tablet in the tile floor of our beautiful Memorial Hall in the State Library. From the sp...
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