Charter of Connecticut
Series: CIS state constitutional conventions
Published: 1909
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 536
Subjects: Charters
Notes: In Thorpe, Francis Newton, comp. The federal and state constitutions, colonial charters, and other organic laws of the states, territories, and colonies now or heretofore forming the United States of America. Washington, 1909. v. 1, p.529-536.

The Charter "was not regarded as a grant of new powers, but as a formal recognition of the government already established by the people and a confirmation of the rights and privileges they had exercised from the first ... The frame of government continued to rest on the same broad foundation on which the Constitution of 1639 had placed it."--J. Hammond Trumbull. Historical notes on the constitution of Connecticut, 1639-1818. Hartford, 1873. p. 10.