The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut established the first formal government in Connecticut in 1639. The document was written by settlers in the towns of Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield who joined together in a "public state or commonwealth" to govern themselves according to biblical principles and maintain peace. It created the framework for democratic rule by establishing that the communities would be self-governed according to laws enacted by a general court.
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut established the first formal government in Connecticut in 1639. The document was written by settlers in the towns of Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield who joined together in a "public state or commonwealth" to govern themselves according to biblical principles and maintain peace. It created the framework for democratic rule by establishing that the communities would be self-governed according to laws enacted by a general court.
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut established the first formal government in Connecticut in 1639. The document was written by settlers in the towns of Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield who joined together in a "public state or commonwealth" to govern themselves according to biblical principles and maintain peace. It created the framework for democratic rule by establishing that the communities would be self-governed according to laws enacted by a general court.
For as much as it hath pleased Almighty God by the wise disposition of his divine providence so to order and dispose of things that we the Inhabitants and Residents of Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield are now cohabiting and dwelling in and upon the River of Connectecotte and the lands thereunto adjoining; and well knowing where a people are gathered together the word of God requires that to maintain the peace and union of such a people there should be an orderly and decent Government established according to God, to order and dispose of the affairs of the people at all seasons as occasion shall require; do therefore associate and conjoin ourselves to be as one Public State or Commonwealth; and do for ourselves and our successors and such as shall be adjoined to us at any time hereafter, enter into Combination and Confederation together, to maintain and preserve the liberty and purity of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus which we now profess, as also, the discipline of the Churches, which according to the truth of the said Gospel is now practiced amongst us; as also in our civil affairs to be guided and governed The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | Teaching American History. (2016).Teachingamericanhistory.org. Retrieved 12 August 2016, from http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-fundamental-orders-ofconnecticut/
according to such Laws, Rules, Orders and Decrees
as shall be made, ordered, and decreed as followeth: Please answer the following questions on your chart paper. As a group, you will present your answers to the class. 1.) When was the document written?
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive
The Divine Right of Church Government
Wherein it is proved that the Presbyterian government, by preaching and ruling elders, in sessional, Presbyterial and synodical assemblies, may lay the only lawful claim to a divine right, according to the Holy Scriptures
The Auchensaugh Renovation of the National Covenant and
Solemn League and Covenant
With the Acknowledgment of Sins and Engagement to Duties, as They
Were Renewed at Auchensaugh, Near Douglas, July 24, 1712. (Compared
With the Editions of Paisley, 1820, and Belfast, 1835.) Also, The
Renovation of These Public Federal Deeds Ordained at Philadelphia,
October 8, 1880, by the Reformed Presbytery, with Accommodation of
the Original Covenants, in Both Transactions, to Their Times and
Positions Respectively