...drafted a charter which received royal sanction and under which Connecticut conducted its government 1 It was the first written constitution known to history that created a government. — Fiske. The whole constitution was that of an independent state. It continued in force, with very...

...which is now so familiar to us." Fiskes' Beginnings of New England says : " It marked the beginning of American Democracy, of which Thomas Hooker deserves...more than any other man to be called the father." Another authority says of Thomas Hooker that he was "The man who first visioned and did much to make...

...England, shows how the present form of government of the United States is a lineal descendant of that " of which Thomas Hooker deserves more than any other man to be called the father." Bancroft, in his History of the United States, writes: " Hooker had no rival in public estimation but...

...have been framed as a scheme of selfgovernment by any community of people in the world. Says Fiske : "It was the first written constitution known to history...beginnings of American democracy, of which Thomas Hooker [formerly minister of the church at Newtown, who was the leader of the migration to the Connecticut]...

...government of the Colony. "The first written Constitution in the history of the Nations." John Fiske says : "It was the first written Constitution known to history,...more than any other man, to be called the father. Mr. Hooker made the journey from Hartford to Boston and back on public business certainly thiee times...

...orders," and formed a government. This constitution was prepared by Hooker and is said to have been "the first written constitution known to history that...and it marked the beginnings of American democracy." The new colony was governed for a year by a board of commissioners appointed by Massachusetts. After...

...necessary. In January, 1639, Windsor, Hartford, and Weathersfield adopted a constitution, which, says Fiske, was ' ' the first written constitution known to history that created a government. " Of this document Bryce says: " It was the oldest truly political constitution in America." Massachusetts...

...constitution; this was enacted by popular vote of 4 January, 1639, and according to Fiske's " New England," it was the first written constitution known to history that created a government. The government of the United States to-day is in lineal descent more nearly related to that of Connecticut...

...the representatives of the freemen or burgesses. The fundamental orders of Connecticut in 1639 — "the first written Constitution known to history that created a government"— and the charter of Connecticut in 1662 mark still another step in the development of legislative bodies...

...constitution of popular government which was adopted by Connecticut early in 1639. John Fisk says, "It was the first written constitution known to history...be called the father. The government of the United Statesc to-day, is, in lineal descent more nearly related to that of Connecticut than to that of any...