Writing It All Down: The Art of Constitution Making for the State and the Nation, 1776-1833

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MSA SC 2221-4-2 June 1776. Maryland Gazette. Articles including instructions to the Anne Arundel County delegation to the Constitutional Convention (Ninth Convention) concerning drafting a Constitution for Maryland and two articles by AN AMERICAN. The text from Peter Force, American Archives, Vol. VI, Washington, DC, March 1846. The original Gazette is in SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Maryland State Law Library Collection of the Maryland Gazette) MSA SC 2311-1-15.

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Instructions of the Freemen of Anne Arundel County, columns 1091 & 1092 .

form of government proposed for the consideration of the citizens of Anne Arundel County, & beginning of An American's first essay, columns 1093 & 1094

continuation of the essays by An American, columns 1095 & 1096

conclusion of the essays by An American, columns 1097 & 1098

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