Count the Cost

“Which of you” would build a tower without first counting the cost? David Daggett turns that biblical question on Connecticut itself, as citizens are urged to remake their government.

In the early nineteenth century, amid calls for a new constitution, Daggett addresses his fellow Connecticut citizens as political agitation threatens an order he says has endured for generations. He points to the state’s schools, religious institutions, prosperity and long peace, then warns that reformers would sweep away vital protections—including laws supporting religion. Their promised changes, he argues, may cost far more than their advocates admit. Before his neighbors exchange familiar institutions for an uncertain new order, Daggett asks them to weigh the price. What, in his view, lies at the root of the discontent—and what might Connecticut lose by giving it way?

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