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Significant events and individuals in Connecticut politics
State Ratifying Convention Meeting Places (see all)
- Hartford in State House then moved to First Church (North Meeting House)
Significant Speeches/Documents in Favor of Ratification
- Philanthrop: To the People, Hartford, American Mercury, 19 November 1787
- Compo: To the Head of the Wrongheads of New Haven County, Hartford, Connecticut Courant, 26 November 1787
- Connecticutensis: To the People of Connecticut, Hartford, American Mercury, 31 December 1787
- Oliver Ellsworth The Connecticut Convention: Friday, 4 January 1788
- Samuel Johnson The Connecticut Convention: Friday, 4 January 1788
- Samuel Huntington The Connecticut Convention: Wednesday, 9 January 1788
- Oliver Wolcott The Connecticut Convention: Wednesday, 9 January 1788
- Richard Law The Connecticut Convention: Wednesday, 9 January 1788
Significant Speeches/Documents Opposing Ratification
- An American, Litchfield ,Weekly Monitor, 3 September 1787
- Letter from Massachusetts and Letter from New York, New Haven, Connecticut Journal, 17, 24, 31 October 1787
- The People: Unconstitutionalism, Middletown, Middlesex Gazette, 10 December 1787
- Hugh Ledlie to John Lamb B. Commentaries on the Convention, 10 January–10 March
Landholder (Oliver Ellsworth) Attacks Elbridge Gerry
- Nobody: To Elbridge Gerry, Hartford, Connecticut Courant, 19 November 1787
- A Landholder IV, Hartford, Connecticut Courant, 26 November 1787
- A Landholder V, Hartford, Connecticut Courant, 3 December 1787
- A Landholder VIII, Harford, Connecticut Courant, 24 December 1787
A Countryman (Roger Sherman) Essays
- A Countryman I, New Haven Gazette, 15 November 1787
- A Countryman II, New Haven Gazette, 22 November 1787
- A Countryman III, New Haven Gazette, 29 November 1787
- A Countryman IV, New Haven Gazette, 6 December 1787
- A Countryman V, New Haven Gazette, 20 December 1787
Recommended Amendments
Significant Outcomes