Connecticut State Senate
Although the magistrates and deputies sat together, they voted separately and in 1645 it was decreed that a measure had to have the approval of both groups in order to pass.In 1698, the General Assembly split into a bicameral body, divided between the Council and the House of Representatives.[citation needed] The 1818 constitution renamed the council to the Senate,[1] removed the governor and deputy governor from its membership, and removed all remaining judicial and executive authority from it, but it remained largely the same in that it still consisted of twelve generally elected members.[2] In 1814–15, the Hartford Convention met in the Connecticut Senate chamber of what is now the Old State House.The Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut serves as the President of the Senate, but only casts a vote if required to break a tie.