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Message: [QUOTE="uconnfan68, post: 4531723, member: 603"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://connecticuthistory.org/the-storied-history-behind-connecticuts-nicknames/[/URL] "Finally, in 1959, the state’s General Assembly voted to make one nickname official. Since then, the title “Constitution State” has paid tribute to our colonial history, alluding to the [URL='https://connecticuthistory.org/the-fundamental-orders-of-connecticut/']Fundamental Orders[/URL] of Connecticut, considered one of the first written documents of its kind. To add credibility to the name, Simeon E. Baldwin, a former Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, said, “Never had a company of men deliberately met to frame a social compact for immediate use, constituting a new and independent commonwealth, with definite officers, executive and legislative, and prescribed rules and modes of government, until the first planters of Connecticut came together for their great work on January 14th, 1638-39.”" [/QUOTE]