 In 1816, Connecticut was entirely in the control of the Federalist Party and the established Congregationalist Church.Connecticut was known as "the land of steady habits" for its custom of re-electing those in power until they died; the Democratic-Republican party had been organized in 1804, yet Connecticut remained one of the last holdouts of the Federalist party in America.Once Massachusetts passed the 1811 "Religious Freedom Act," Connecticut was last state to effectively have an established state religion in practice and not just on paper; it also had the only Constitution going back to the days of the British Empire.