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As of Saturday, you can get a drink without a meal, and serving hours are extended to midnight.

On May 1, outdoor bars can reopen in Connecticut, without the requirement that they serve food, with their curfews moved to midnight, and with the eight-person per-table limit lifted. Tavern owners with outdoor seating said they like to see restrictions lifted, but that doesn’t mean they’ll change their own procedures immediately.

Winthrop & Williams: Religious Persecution & Freedom in New England Article Send to Google Classroom: X The Puritans who settled New England claimed they came to the New World for religious freedom but, once settled, made it clear that this freedom was for themselves only and dissent would not be tolerated. Although the most famous example of this is Anne Hutchinson (l. 1591-1643 CE) who was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for her religious views in 1638 CE, an earlier illustration of this same kind of reaction to dissent is the banishment of the Puritan separatist minister Roger Will...

Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628-1691 CE) was the largest English settlement in New England and the most influential both in the colonization of the region...

After the Constitutional Convention ended, George Washington commented to Marquis de Lafayette, February 7, 1788: “With regard to the two great points (the pivots on which the whole machine must move) my creed is simply: First, That the general Government is not invested with more powers than are indispensably necessary to perform functions of a good government … Secondly, That these Powers … are so distributed among the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches, into which the general Government is arranged, that it can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, a...