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Message: [QUOTE="sun, post: 4531845, member: 11664"] HuskyNan, I'm reluctant to discuss this topic on this forum but I will anyway because you asked the question and I'd like to help you & others to see a different and perhaps more accurate perspective. The truth is that the Constitution that's being referred to by our license plates may very well be the great Constitution of the USA and not the fundamental orders at all. If you want to know why I will provide the link to a short article that explains more about it. It's because of the "Great Connecticut Compromise" that created a bicameral legislature consisting of the US House & Senate. This was the compromise that protected the power of the small states making them equal to the larger states in the US Senate. The compromise was proposed by the delegates from CT and the US Constitution might have never been passed without it, nor the nation born in its present form. The article mentions that the fundamental orders were loosely based on a document from Massachusetts, therefore are not the same Constitution being referred to by our license plates that were authorized to include the slogan in 1973, just a few years before the nation's bicentennial. Please read the article carefully to the end where it states: [B][I]Calling the Fundamental Orders “the first written constitution of modern democracy,” and Hartford, therefore “the birthplace of American democracy,” required jingoistic historians to ignore both the Orders’ derivation from Massachusetts’s governmental model and the fact that Connecticut still barred many people from the franchise. It is not surprising then that former state historian Albert van Dusen called the Orders’ description as a constitution “uncertain,” and Yale Professor Charles M. Andrews rejected the Orders’ “constitutionalism” altogether. For generations of Connecticut residents, however, the belief that the Fundamental Orders (or at least the Connecticut compromise) made ours the Constitution State remains rooted in our psyches and our culture. And that, in a way, could be said to represent Yankee ingenuity at its most creative. [URL unfurl="true"]https://connecticuthistory.org/creative-license-or-fundamental-fact/#:~:text=Since%20the%20blue%20tags%20with,special%20connection%20to%20the%20Constitution.[/URL][/I][/B] [/QUOTE]

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