We in Connecticut live under a Constitution that was adopted in 1965 and has been amended more times since then than the U.S. Constitution has since 1788. But the delegates in 1965 were interested in little else than keeping the federal courts off Connecticut’s back because of the one-person-one-vote decisions that the federal courts had just issued.

For that reason, most of the text of Connecticut’s first Constitution, adopted in 1818, was included without change, or with only cosmetic change (“inferiour” courts became lower courts; the Supreme Court of Errors became the Supreme Court) in the 1965 Constitution.