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It is a fact as well authenticated as the settlement of the state, that a Constitution was formed by the people of the then colony of Connecticut, before the Charter of King Charles.
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Daggett asserts the historical fact of Connecticut's Constitution being formed by the people, emphasizing its foundational importance.
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The people swore eternal hatred to Monarchy, and eternal fidelity to Constitutions, till, heaven, weary of their perjuries, sent them a despot in his wrath.
But mark the issue --Not twelve years have elapsed before she has returned to an inglorious despotism--She has exchanged her Capets for a foreign usurper, with an incalculable loss, and here her history ends.
Such is the constant termination of such revolutions, and shall we claim to be an exception?
Let not then the projector persuade us to adopt his theories with proofs of their danger thus glaring before our eyes.
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