Original Discontents: Commentaries on the Creation of Connecticut's Constitution of 1818Primary documents illuminate the second Hartford Convention The Old State House in Hartford, Connecticut, was the site of two key political conventions in the early nineteenth century. The legislatures of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island sent official delegations to the first Hartford Convention at the end of 1814, when the War of 1812 was going badly. This convention threatened to make a separate peace with Britain if certain amendments