156 CONNECTICUT’S INFLUENCE 
Charles II. think him the best fellow in the world. We 
have seen that in making her first constitution Con- 
necticut did not so much as allude to the existence of 
a British government; but in the stormy times of the 
Restoration that sort of thing would no longer do. So 
the astute Winthrop sought and obtained a royal charter 
which simply gave Connecticut what she had already, 
naincly, the government which she had formed for her- 
self,and which was so satisfactorily republican that she 
did not need to revise it in 1776, but lived on with it 
well into the nineteenth century. This charter defined 
her territory in such a way as to include naughty New 
Haven, which was thus summarily annexed. And how 
did New Haven receive this? The disfranchised mi- 
nority hailed the news with delight. The disgruntled 
theocrats in great part migrated to New Jersey, and the 
venerable Davenport went to end his days in Boston. 
Between New Haven and Boston the sympathy had 
always been strong. The junction with Connecticut 
was greatly facilitated by the exodus of malcontents to 
New Jersey, and it was not long before the whole of 
what is now Connecticut had grown together as an 
extensive republic composed of towns whose union 
presented in many respects a miniature model of our 
present great federal commonwealth. 
We may now in conclusion point to the part which 
Connecticut played in the formation of the federal con- 
stitution under which we live. You will remember that 
there was strong opposition to such a constitution in 
most of the states. Everywhere there was a lurking 
dread of what might be done by a new and untried 
continental power, possessing powers of taxation and 
having a jurisdiction beyond and in some respects 
