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Original Discontents (Paperback)
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Original Discontents (Paperback)
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The Old State House in Hartford, Connecticut, was the site of two
key political conventions in the early nineteenth century. The
legislatures of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island sent
official delegations to the first "Hartford Convention" at the end
of 1814, when the War of 1812 was going badly. This convention
threatened to make a separate peace with Britain if certain
amendments to the United States Constitution were not accepted, and
fell into disgrace when the war came to an unexpectedly favorable
conclusion. The second convention, in 1818, drafted a constitution
that reformed the structure of government established in the
Charter of 1662 and submitted its handiwork to the people for
approval. Parts of the Constitution of 1818 survive in
Connecticut's present form of government.
Original Discontents contains twenty-five selections of newspaper
and pamphlet commentary about this constitutional revision,
introduced and annotated by the editors, along with text of the
Fundamental Orders of 1639, the Charter of Connecticut (1662), and
the Constitution of 1818. This anthology is useful to all students
of Connecticut history and relevant to enduring constitutional
debates.
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