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Connecticut was officially nicknamed the Constitution State by its state legislature in 1969, based on their claim that the first real constitution in what was to become the United States was written in Connecticut in 1638-39. A former Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court contended that 'never [before] had a company of men deliberately met to frame a social compact for immediate use, constituting a new and independent commonwealth, with definite officers, executive and legislative, and prescribed rules and modes of government, ....

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