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Sioussat's The English Statutes in Maryland, 1903
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CHAPTER V.
RESULTS OF THE CONTROVERSY—DIRECT AND INDIRECT.
In considering the results of this controversy, and in at-
tempting to set, in their due relation to the history of the
British Empire and to that of the American colonies, the
succession of events and the interchange of arguments that
we have described in the preceding chapters, we must avoid
magnifying to an undue importance that which has come
beneath our observation- Maryland was but a small corner
of the political world, and to the Empire—perhaps even to
neighboring colonies — this controversy and its leaders re-
mained unknown. In this cautious frame of mind, however,
we may endeavor to look at the affair in the larger relations
of time and place, and with this survey bring our essay to a
close.
First, then, we have seen that .the technical points at issue
were compromised, to the Proprietor's advantage perhaps,
and that the leader of the popular body passed over to the
official circle, there, however, still exercising his influence for
the public good. The compromise, moreover, was only a
makeshift, and left an indefiniteness in this part of Mary-
land law, which, differentiated the latter somewhat from the
jurisprudence of the other colonies, and from the general
theory of the United States Supreme Court.
Next, the reader may once more be reminded of the close
connection of this with the other expressions of unrest that
mark this period of the colonial history of Maryland, while
the whole will impress on him the error of the older view
that regarded this as a time of halcyon quiet in colonial admin-
istration. In the former essay also. it was shown that other
causes of strife ensued, and that henceforth the Assembly
was rarely without some active aggression upon one or an-
other of the prerogatives of the Proprietor.

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