Enclosed are one original document (the Maryland Charter), three general articles, and one unpublished essay, which we hope you will be able to read before the 19th. Note that the edition of the Charter you are being asked to read is not the one published in the Maryland Manual.

The general themes of the day's sessions will be the creation, importation, and interpretation of Maryland law, with emphasis on the definition of sovereignty and citizenship, domestic and race relations, toleration, professionalization in and of the law, and the art of Constitution writing that is the hallmark of the final decade of the colonial period.

For those who use the computer, the syllabus, bibliography, and a chronology will be posted on http://www.ecpclio.net. Your user name is judicial and the password is fatti!  Once you are into the site, go to modify and edit series and then to the Judicial Institute home page.
There you will find the readings on line as well as hyperlinks to some of the other materials we will be using in class.  By the day of the institute there will also be a draft chronology of Maryland Law through 1776. If you have any difficulties accessing the files on ecpclio.net, call Ed Papenfuse at 410-260-6401.  He or Kathy Beard will provide assistance.
 
 

The general outline of the day's activities breaks down as follows:

(times are approximate and subject to change)

9-10:30 a.m.  presentation: 'The Bishopric of Durham, The Maryland Charter, and the Origins of Maryland Sovereignty"

10:30-10:45 a.m  break

10:45-11:45 a.m. group particpation in readings from the records relating to defining the law and sovereign power prior to 1694

11:45 a.m. -12:30 p.m. group discussion with Lois Carr and Jeff Sawyer concerning toleration, women, children, and the relevance of Calvin's Case (1609) in the development of Maryland Colonial Law
 

12:30-1:30 p.m.  lunch
 

1:30-2:45 p.m. citizenship, precedent, codification, and professionalization of the law: examples and case studies, with discussion of Mathias DeSousa, Thomas McNamara, Daniel Dulany (3),  Thomas Bacon, and others (with the exception of DeSousa, largely concentrated on the period after 1694).

2:45-3:00 p.m. break

3:00-4:30 p.m.  Writing It All Down: the articulated urge to define constitutional principals and the law, with emphasis on the Constitutional Convention of August-September 1776 and the Hestitant Revolutionaries who comprised the last of nine extra-legal conventions that had assumed the sovereign powers of governing Maryland beginning in 1775.
 

cc: David Bogen (dbogen@law.umaryland.edu)
     Ellen DeChant (Ellen.DeChant@courts.state.md.us)
     Jeff Sawyer (jsawyer@ubmail.ubalt.edu)
     Lois Carr (loisc@mdarchives.state.md.us)