A wonderful review--the best kind, since it makes me want to run out and watch the movie. You may know the following, but I wonder if the novelist or scriptwriter did. Anyone reading this who is already "in the know," you can stop right here. The nickname "Land of Steady Habits" doesn't mean what most people today think it means. It was in no way a compliment, though Connecticut adopted chose to own it, the way they did "Yankee Doodle," also an anti-Connecticut Colony jape.
Connecticut began to be called "The Land of Steady Habits" during the years between 1789, when the Constitution was ratified, and 1818, when Connecticut got around to having a Constitutional Convention to bring its ancient Fundamental Orders into line with the new-fangled Constitution.(another misunderstood nickname, one that's been on the license plate for a long time. "Constitution State" refers to the Fundamental Orders of the 1630s, not our governing document).
Connecticut was mocked for ignoring the Bill of Rights and continuing to have an established religion, among other un-Constitutional practices. The answer of "We always did it that way" led to the nickname.
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You may know the following, but I wonder if the novelist or scriptwriter did. Anyone reading this who is already "in the know," you can stop right here.
The nickname "Land of Steady Habits" doesn't mean what most people today think it means. It was in no way a compliment, though Connecticut adopted chose to own it, the way they did "Yankee Doodle," also an anti-Connecticut Colony jape.
Connecticut began to be called "The Land of Steady Habits" during the years between 1789, when the Constitution was ratified, and 1818, when Connecticut got around to having a Constitutional Convention to bring its ancient Fundamental Orders into line with the new-fangled Constitution.(another misunderstood nickname, one that's been on the license plate for a long time. "Constitution State" refers to the Fundamental Orders of the 1630s, not our governing document).
Connecticut was mocked for ignoring the Bill of Rights and continuing to have an established religion, among other un-Constitutional practices. The answer of "We always did it that way" led to the nickname.