Division of the Connecticut General Assembly into Two Houses

  • October 13, 1698
Image: Drawing of the "Slate-roof house," in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Second street, between Chestnut and Walnut, at the southeast corner of Norris's alley. The residence of Pennsylvania founder William Penn in Philadelphia where his only American-born child was born. Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, 1888, v. 4, p. 715 Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Appletons%27_Penn_William_Slate-roof_house.jpg

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It is ordered by this court, and the authority thereof, that for the future its general assembly shall consist of two houses. The first shall consist of the governor, or, in his absence of the deputy-governor, and assistants, which shall be known by the name of the Upper House. The other shall consist of such deputies as shall be legally returned from the several towns within this colony to serve as members of this general assembly, which shall be known by the name of the Lower house wherein a speaker chosen by themselves shall preside. Which houses so formed shall have a distinct power to apoint all needful officers and to make such rules as they shall severally judge necessary for the regulating of themselves. And it is further ordered that no act shall be passed into a law of this colony, nor any law already enacted be repealed, nor any other act proper to this general assembly, but by the consent of both houses.

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