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MARYLAND MANUAL. 363 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND ADOPTED BY ThE CONVENTION WHICH ASSEMBLED AT THE CITY OF ANNAPOLIS ON THE EIGHTH 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, WITH AMENDMENTS TO AND INCLUD ING NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOUR. DECLARATION OF RIGHTS We, the people of the State of Maryland, grateful to Al mighty God for our civil and religious liberty, and taking into our serious consideration the best means of estab lishing a good Constitution in this State for the sure foun dation and more permanent security thereof, declare: Article 1. 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 Government 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, any thing in the Constitution or Law of this State to the con trary notwithstanding. 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. Art. 5. That the inhabitants of Maryland are entitled to the Common Law of England, and the trial by Jury, according to the course of that law, and to the benefit of such of the English statutes as existed on the Fourth day |
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