PREFACE. Having been appointed a delegate from the Town of Haddam to the Constitutional Convention to be held in Hartford, on the first Wednesday of January, 1902, and believing that we should know what our present Constitution is, or would be if correctly revised, I immediately set about the work of revision and have it substantially correct in every detail, except by preference, I have made the number of Senators thirty-six, instead of from twenty-four to thirty-six, as by amendment. The Constitution has been amended many times but the amendments are confined entirely to matter of detail. They do not effect the fundamental principles established by the fathers in the 1818 Constitution. The Constitution of 1818 contained about forty-nine hundred words, and with its amendments about sixty-six hundred words. In this revision there is about fifty-one hundred words, and, except as above stated, covers the work quite complete. GEORGE M. CLARK. |