God requires that to maintain the peace and union of such a people there should be an orderly and decent government established according to God, to order and dispose of the affairs of the people at all seasons as occasion shall require, do therefore associate and convene ourselves to be as one Public State or Commonwealth;...as also in our civil affairs to be guided and governed according to such laws, rules, orders and decrees as shall be made, ordered and decreed, as followeth:—1. It is ordered, sentenced and decreed, that there shall be yearly two general assemblies or courts, . . .2. 2. It is ordered, sentenced and decreed, that the election of the aforesaid magistrates shall be on this manner: Every person present and qualified for choice shall bring in (to the person deputed to receive them) one single paper with the name of him written in whom he desires to have governor,What did the Fundamental Order

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