Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut" in English language version.
It is the judgment of the most learned scholars, Dr. Charles J. Hoadley and the late Dr. J. Hammond Trumbull, that the men who were foremost in that great matter desired that no record of the transactions should be preserved; that they knew the Fundamental Orders would explain themselves-they needed no interpretation; that in letter and spirit they would find instant response and approval in the minds and hearts of the people; and it was so. It has been justly called a self-appointed constitution. But there were other reasons for the silence of the records. England was watchful and suspicious of this vigorous infant colony; the commission from Massachusetts had expired.