CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND

ADOPTED BY THE CONVENTION

WHICH ASSEMBLED AT THE CITY OF ANNAPOLIS ON THE EIGHTH DAY
OF MAT, 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, WITH AMENDMENTS
TO AND INCLUDING NINETEEN HUNDRED
AND TWENTY.

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 best 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.

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 ex-
clusive right of regulating the internal government and po-
lice thereof as a free, sovereign and independent State.

Art. 5. That the inhabitants of Maryland are entitled to
the Common Law of England, and the trial by Jury, accord-
ing to the course of that law, and to the benefit of such of the