ADOPTED BY THE CONVENTION

WHICH ASSEMBLED AT THE CITY OF ANNAPOLIS ON THE
EIGTHTH DAY OF MAY, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND-SIXTY-
SEVEN, AND ADJOURNED ON THE SEVENTEENTH
DAY OF AUGUST, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND
SIXTY-SEVEN, AND RATIFIED BY THE
PEOPLE ON THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF
SEPTEMBER, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED
AND SIXTY-SEVEN.

DECLARATION OF RIGHT5.

We, the People of the State of Maryland, grateful to Almighty
God for our civil and religious liberty, and taking into our
serious consideration the best means of establishing a good
Constitution in this State for the sure foundation and more
permanent security thereof, declare:

ARTICLE I. That all Government of right originates from
the PEOPLE, is founded in compact only, and instituted solely
for the good of the whole; and they have, at all times, the
inalienable right to alter, reform or abolish their form of Gov-
ernment in such manner as they may deem expedient.

ART. 2. The Constitution of the United States, and the
Laws made or which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and
all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority
of the United States, are, and shall be the Supreme Law of
the State; and the Judges of this State and all the People of
this State are and shall be bound thereby; anything in the
Constitution or Law of this State to the contrary notwith-
standing.

ART. 3. The powers not delegated to the United States by
the Constitution thereof, nor prohibited by it to the States,
are reserved to the States respectively or to the People thereof.

ART. 4. That the People of this State have the sole and
exclusive right of regulating the internal government and.
police thereof, as a free, sovereign and independent State.