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Her towns were, even more completely than those of Massachusetts, so many free republics, firmly knit together in a vigorous commonwealth through a legislature in which both towns and commonwealth were represented. For a century and a half Connecticut had been the United States in miniature. But another qualification may be found in the attitude of the colony as a member, albeit a very small one, of theB ritish empire. It was conspicuous among the colonies at once for its freedom and its loyalty, for the co-existence of large powers of local government with a generally prompt obedience to a central government. I ts temper was illustrated just a century before its delegates did their great work atP hiladelphia, when in the autumn of 1687, it submitted quietly to a temporary abrogation of its marvellously free charter, while that document probably found a safe hiding-place in a hollow tree, the oak which so fitly sheltered our transplanted vine. I desire this evening to set forth the service rendered in the making of the Constitution by the man whom Connecticut placed at the head of her delegation. Dr. William Samuel Johnson. In the convention itself his influence, though it must have been considerable, was at all events less palpable than that of Sherman andE llsworth. But for more than twenty years he had been occupied, in America and in England, with the problem of the right adjustment of local and central authority. He had done his utmost to secure the combination of colonial freedom with imperial control, and what he accomplished was so far a contribution to the development of the federal out of the imperial system, of the American out of theB ritish constitution. What he and his colleagues performed in 1787 was for him the completion of a task which he began in 1765. Our study of his labors upon the Constitution will therefore cover his whole career as a
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