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Sioussat's The English Statutes in Maryland, 1903
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533] The English Statutes in Maryland. 69
brought to their consciousness rather suddenly the realiza-
tion of their imperial or, if one may stretch the term, their in-
ternational relations, that the doctrine of Natural Rights be-
came as it were their universal political creed. Now, few of the
practical questions that came up could lead them more easily
to this system of thought than this interrogation as to the
legal relation of dependencies to the colonizing power, which
we have had under investigation. For the English law itself,
as seen in the decisions of the courts from Calvin's Case down,
bore, here more than in most of its departments, the stamp
of the influence of the Law of Nations; and how easy would
be the passage from this to the Law of Nature, must appear
to anyone who reads even the chapter titles of the Second
Essay on Government. The same connection is witnessed to
by the frequent reference to Grotius and Puffendorf, whose
influence on revolutionary thought the greater importance of
Locke sometimes causes us to forget.
Thus we bring to a conclusion our studies in this period
of Maryland history. With the middle of the eighteenth cen-
tury came changes in the dramatis persons' and in the ques-
tions. economic and political, which the provincials had to
meet. But the new growth had its roots in the old. The im-
provement of the tobacco culture, the introduction of German
immigrants; the possibilities open to a skillful leader in the
provincial legislature; the warm discussion of the imperial
consititution as applied to the Province—all of these found
their beginning in that time which we have chosen for inves-
tigation, and which we have described in the foregoing'
pages.

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