ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Ok, so imagine you have a group of friends and you all want to play together. But there's always one friend who likes to make all the rules and be in charge, right? Well, a long time ago in the 1600s, some people who lived in a place called Connecticut also wanted to play together and live in a peaceful way with each other. But they realized they needed some rules to make sure everyone was treated fairly.

So, the people in Connecticut got together and wrote a document called the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut. It's like a big list of rules that everyone agreed to follow so they could all live and work together without any big fights or problems.

Some of the rules said things like how the government should work, how people should be elected to make decisions, and how to divide up land and share resources fairly. They even made sure that people had the right to practice their own religion and speak freely, which was really important back then.

So, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut helped the people there to have a fair and peaceful society where everyone had a say and nobody was treated unfairly. It was like a big agreement to play nice and share the sandbox.