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 AND

DECISIONS OF THE COURT OF APPEALS

TO AND INCLUDING 97 MD.

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 founded 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 Government
in such manner as they may deem expedient.

Hepburn's Case, 3 Bl 95 Manly v. State, 7 Md 147.

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 Consti-
tution or Law of this State to the contrary notwithstanding.

Barney v. Patterson, 6 H & J 203. Ches. & Ohio Canal Co. v B & O.
R R. Co , 4 Gr. & J. 1. Howell v State, 3 Gill. 14. Wilson v. Turpin, 5
Gill. 56 Larabee v Talbott, 6 Gill, 426. Irwin v. Sprigg, 6 Gill, 200.
Evans v 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.