Writing It All Down:
The Art of Constitution Making for the State & the Nation, 1776-1833
Maryland State Archives: Documents for the Classroom
350 Rowe Boulevard,
Annapolis, MD 21401
Phone: (410) 974-3914
Internet: http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us
e-mail: archives@mdarchives.state.md.us
![[painting ofmen writing documents]](writing6.gif)
MSA SC 4314-1-1. detail from a painting by J.L.G. Ferris
in Ladies Home Journal, date unknown.
Purpose:
- to examine the English origins, the context, and the process by which
Maryland wrote a state constitution in 1776
- to examine the Maryland reaction to the Federal constitution proposed
by the Philadelphia Convention of 1787
- to look at how Maryland defined such individual rights as the right
of non-Christians to hold office and the right to due process
See:
- Introductory
essay by Dr. Papenfuse first published in the Baltimore Sun,
December 14, 1991, p. 9A, and in modified form in Maryland Humanities,
Winter, 1992, an overview of the "Maryland
Constitutional Convention of 1776," revised from the introduction
to the Decisive Blow is Struck (Annapolis: Maryland Hall of Records,
1977), and biographical sketches of the Maryland delegation to the Constitutional
Convention: Five
Delegates to Philadelphia.
- Guide
to Documents
- Suggested
Reading List
- Museums & Historic Sites including the Maryland
State House, the scene of most of the efforts at writing it all down.
The Documents for the Classroom series of the Maryland State Archives
was designed and developed by Dr. Edward C. Papenfuse and Dr. M. Mercer
Neale and was prepared with the assistance of R. J. Rockefeller, Lynne
MacAdam and other members of the Archives staff. MSA SC 2221-04. Publication
no. 3918. ©1993 Maryland State Archives.
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at sallie@access.digex.net. You may also reach him by phone at 410-974-3869
or 467-6137.
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