Disability Discrimination.

CONSTITUTION ARTICLE  I, Section 20

Adopted: November 28, 1984 by a popular vote of  637,754 in favor and 180,955 against.

“All we’re talking about with HJR 47 is the extension of fundamental rights in the constitution to handicapped people.  We’re not asking for preferential treatment, we’re not asking for special considerations, we’re asking to be treated just like everybody else is treated. …Let’s make sure that we protect for all time the rights of handicapped people.”

--Former Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives Ernest Abate testifying in favor of a proposed constitutional amendment at a Judiciary Committee public hearing held on March 18, 1983.