ADOPTED BY THE CONVENTION

WHICH ASSEMBLED AT THE CITY OF ANNAPOLIS ON THE EIGHTH DAT OF
MAY, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN, AND ADJOURNED ON THE
SEVENTEENTH DAY OF AUGUST, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AMD SIXTY-
SEVEN, AND RATIFIED BY THE PEOPLE ON THE EIGHTEENTH
DAY OF SEPTEMBER, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-
SEVEN, WITH AMENDMENTS TO AND INCLUDING
NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN.

DECLARATION OF RIGHTS.

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 test means of establishing, a good
Constitution in this State for the sure foundation and more
permanent security thereof, declare:
Article 1. That all Government of right originates from
the People, is found in compact only, and instituted solely for
the good of the whole; and they have, at all times, the inalien-
able right to alter, reform or abolish their form of Govern-
ment in such manner as they may deem expedient.

Hepborn's Case, 3 Bl., 95. Manly vs. State, 7 Md., 147. Md. Jockey
Club vs. State, 106 Md.

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.

Barney vs. Patterson, 6 H. & J., 203. Ches. & Ohio Canal Co. w.
B. & O. B. R. Co., 4 G. & J., 1. Howell vs. State, 3 Gill, 14. Wilson
vs. Turpin, 5 Gill, 56. Larabee vs. Talbott, 5 Gill, 426. Irvin vs. Sprigg,
6 Gill, 200. Evans vs. Sprigg, 2 Md. 457.

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.
Cochran/vs. Prseton, 108 Md.