In the year 1634, a group of Puritans and others who were dissatisfied with the rate of Anglican reforms sought to establish an ecclesiastical society subject to their own rules and regulations.
The Massachusetts General Court established the March Commission to mediate the dispute and named Roger Ludlow as its head.
On May 29, 1638, Ludlow wrote to Massachusetts Governor Winthrop that the colonists wanted to "unite ourselves to walk and lie peaceably and lovingly together."
It is postulated that the framers wished to remain anonymous because England was watchful and suspicious of this vigorous infant colony; the commission from Massachusetts had expired.
"[6]The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut is a short document but contains some principles that were later applied in creating the United States government.
It was carried to England by Governor John Winthrop and basically[clarification needed] approved by the British King, Charles II.
[8] Karolina Adamová, a scientific member of the Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences argues that the articles of the Bohemian Confederacy adopted by the General Assembly of the evangelical estates in Prague on July 31, 1619, can be considered to be the first modern constitution and simultaneously the first federal constitution in recorded history.