It is fitting that once a year we pause to remember important events in our nation’s history. It is also fitting that at least once in a while we pause to remember important events in our state’s history. Now is such a while.
In 1662 350 years ago this spring the King of England, Charles II, granted Connecticut a charter. That grant put the royal imprimatur on the form of government, with very minor alterations, that the Puritan colonists, led by Rev. Thomas Hooker and attorney Roger Ludlow, had created for themselves in 1639 in the Fundamental Orders without an imprimatur from anyone else.
