Writing It All Down: The Art of Constitution Making for the State and the
Nation, 1776-1833
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Suggested Reading List
Bowen, Catherine Drinker. The Lion and the Throne. The life and Times
of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634). Boston: Little, Brown and Company,
1956, especially pp. 482-503. [Bowen provides a well-written, if possibly
over-dramatized, account of Coke's role in preparing the Petition.]
Constitutional Convention Commission. Constitutional Revision Study
Documents. Baltimore: King Brothers, Inc., 1968..
Dumbauld, Edward. "State Precedents for
the Bill of Rights." Journal of Public Law, 7 (1958): 323-344.
Foster, Elizabeth R. "Petitions and the Petition of Right," Journal
of British Studies 14 (1974), 21-45.
Friedman, Dan. "Tracing the Lineage: Textual and Conceptual Similarities
in the Revolutionary-Era State Declarations of Rights of Virginia, Maryland,
and Delaware." Unpublished.
Guy, J. A. "The Origin of the Petition of Right Reconsidered," The
Historical Journal 25 (1982), 289-312.
Howard, A. E. Dick. The Road from Runnymede. Magna Carta and Constitutionalism
in America. Charlottesville: The Univesity Press of Virginia, 1968.
[Johnson, R.C., M.F. Keeler, M.J. Cole, and W. B. Bidwell, eds.,] Commons
Debates 1628, III, 627-34; IV, 1-186 passim, esp. 181-86, for the Petition
of Right.
Lewis, H. H. Walker. The
Maryland Constitution of 1776. n.pl., n.pub., 1976.
Morgan, Edmund S. Inventing the People. The Rise of Popular Sovereignty
in England and America. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1988.
On p. 25, n. 14, Morgan cites the most recent references for the proceedings
in Parliament on the Petition of Right as well as recent scholarly comment.
He writes that "The manner of presenting the Petition of Right and of the
king's response to it were subjects of intense discussion in the Commons.
The consensus seems to have been against presenting the petition as a bill
but insisting on the king's answering it in Parliament, in such a way that
the courts would be obliged to honor it.
Onuf, Peter, ed. Maryland and the Empire, 1773. The Antilon-First Citizen
Letters. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974.
This debate between the leading Constitutional Lawyer in Maryland,
Daniel Dulany, Jr., and the future Catholic signer of the Declaration of
Independence from Maryland, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, centers on the
colonial interpretation of the Petition of Right.
Papenfuse, Edward. "The `Amending Fathers’ and the Constitution: Changing
Perceptions of Home Rule and Who Should Rule at Home," in The South’s
Role in the Creation of the Bill of Rights. Jackson, Mississippi: University
Press of Mississippi, 1991, pp. 51-75.
Papenfuse, Eric Robert. "Maryland’s Five Delegates to the Constitutional
Convention of 1787" in Maryland: Unity in Diversity. Dubuque, Iowa:
Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 1990, pp. 39-49.
Revised introduction from Papenfuse, Edward
C. and Gregory A. Stiverson, eds. The Decisive Blow is Struck. A Facsimile
Edition of the Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of 1776 and
the First Maryland Constitution. Annapolis: Hall of Records Commission,
1977.
Relf, Frances Helen. "The Petition of Right." The University of Minnesota
Studies in the Social Sciences, Number 8 in Bulletin of the University
of Minnesota, December 1917. [The standard work on the Petition of Right.]
Rutland, Robert Allen. The Birth of the Bill of Rights. 1776-1791.
rev. ed. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1983.
Stiverson, Gregory. "Maryland’s Antifederalists and the Perfection of
the U.S. Constitution." Maryland Historical Magazine, 83 (Spring
1988): 18-35.
Young, Michael B. "The Origins of the Petition of Right Reconsidered
Further," The Historical Journal 27 (1984), 449-52.
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