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Legal History




Legislative History of Connecticut Constitutional Amendments - 1965 to 2008

   by Roy, Christopher

 http://vvv.jud.ct.gov/lawlib/LawLibNews/Posts/Post.aspx?Id=435

The Connecticut State Library has posted the compiled legislative histories for Connecticut constitutional amendments from 1965 to 2008. The page states that "[t]he current constitution was adopted in 1965 and has been amended 31 times."


History of Thanksgiving Proclamations

   by Roy, Christopher

 http://vvv.jud.ct.gov/lawlib/LawLibNews/Posts/Post.aspx?Id=210

For a brief history of Thanksgiving presidential proclamations and congressional resolutions beginning with the first Federal Congress, see the following National Archives web page:

A frequently requested item is the 1936 Connecticut Thanksgiving proclamation by Governor Wilbur L. Cross, which is reproduced as one of our Doses of Connecticut Legal History: