Connecticut

A plan to lower the age at which Connecticut residents can vote in the state's primaries to 17 has been approved by both houses of the state legislature and will definitely appear on the November 2008 ballot. The Voting Age earned unanimous approval from the state senate to appear on the ballot.Constitutional amendment allowing 17 year-olds to vote going on the ballot

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Connecticut is known as the "constitution state." The nickname references the Fundamental Orders of 1638-39. These Fundamental Orders represent the framework for the first formal government written by a representative body in Connecticut. The government has operated under the direction of four separate documents in the course of Connecticut Constitutional History. A true constitution was not adopted in Connecticut until 1818. Finally, the current state constitution was implemented in 1965. The 1965 constitution absorbed a majority of its 1818 predecessor, but incorporated a handful of important modifications.

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