Contrast the massachusetts body of liberties to the fundamental orders of connecticut.

The Fundamental Orders were adopted by the Connecticut Colony council on January 15, 1639 OS (January 24, 1639 NS). The orders describe the government set up by the waters of Connecticut. They wanted the government to access the ocean for trading

It has the features of a written constitution, and is considered by some as the first written Constitution in the Western tradition, and thus earned Connecticut its nickname of The Constitution State. John Fiske, a Connecticut historian, was the first to claim that the Fundamental Orders were the first written Constitution, a claim disputed by some modern historians. The orders were transcribed into the official colony records by the colony's secretary Thomas Welles. It was a Constitution for the colonial government of Hartford and was similar to the government Massachusetts had set up. However, this Order gave men more voting rights and made more men eligible to run for elected positions.

The body of liberties is not specific like the Fundamental orders of Connecticut.

The Body of Liberties was a document originally published in 1641. It was the first legal code established by European colonists in New England and composed of a list of liberties, rather than restrictions. On the other hand the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut is more in depth because these orders describe the government formulated by the Connecticut River towns, describing its structure and powers. Also they wanted the government to have access to the open ocean for trading.