Writing It All Down: The Art of Constitution Making for the State and the Nation, 1776-1833
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MSA SC 2221-4-1 The Magna Carta (1215) & the Petition of Right as sources for a written constitution. Maryland Gazette, October 3, 1765, MSA SC 2311; four dollar bill issued July 26, 1775. Vosloh Collection. MSA SC 1267; September 2, 1987. Baltimore Sun. Article on the Magna Carta.
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Four dollar bill, Maryland Provincial Currency, issued July 25, 1775. See detail. Issued pursuant to an August 14, 1775 resolve of the Maryland Convention to promote the manufacture of gunpowder. Payable in specie at Sterling rates by January 1, 1786. On the face is a woodcut by Thomas Sparrow portraying the right of citizens to petition the king. Sparrow, an Annapolis silversmith, depicts "Liberty" (holding a pole with a liberty hat affixed, and standing on the word 'slavery' and backed by American troops carrying the flag of LIB[erty]) handing a petition (labeled CONG PETI) to "Britannia" who is being restrained by King George III (trampling on M[agna] CHARTA) in the act of setting fire to a harbor some scholars think represents Annapolis. On the back America and Britannia jointly hold an olive branch on a scroll reading PAX TRIUMPHIS POTIOR, LIBERTY
- text of the Petition of Right (1628) and Proceedings on the Petition in Parliament taken from Carl Stephenson & Frederick George Marcham, eds. Sources of English Constitutional History, (New York: Harper & Row, 1972), I:450-454.
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