The Fundamental Orders were adopted by the Connecticut Colony council on January 24 [O.S. January 14] 1639. The fundamental orders describe the government...
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principles of government, and it influenced those who wrote the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut later that year. The Fundamental Orders may have been...
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led by Thomas Hooker, who established the Connecticut Colony at Hartford. The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut were adopted in January 1639, and have been...
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the Fundamental Orders of 1638–39 which represent the framework for the first formal government written by a representative body in Connecticut. Connecticut's...
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Constitution of Connecticut and the Connecticut General Statutes. The Fundamental Orders were adopted by the Connecticut Colony council on January 14, 1639...
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Thomas Hooker (category Founders of Hartford, Connecticut)
Connecticut. He has been cited by many as the inspiration for the "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut", which some have described as the world's first written democratic...
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Term limits in the United States (category Politics of the United States)
colonies had already experimented with term limits. The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut of 1639, for example, prohibited the colonial governor from...
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dating from colonial times, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, remained the basis of government even as Connecticut gained its independence from Great...
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Plantation of New Haven, From 1638 to 1649 (Hartford: Case, Tiffany and Company, 1857), p. 17-21 Thirteen Colonies Fundamental Orders of Connecticut New-Haven...
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Connecticut, and cited by many as the inspiration for the "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut," cited by some as the world's first written democratic constitution...
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