Maine
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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
A northern state paired with Missouri to illustrate that neither state may dictate the other's internal slavery policy.
Missouri has no right to compel Maine to admit of slavery, nor Maine any right to compel Missouri to prohibit it, because each state has a right to think for itself.
Maine can never be united with Ohio, nor Maryland with Missouri, in forming a balance of power composed of two divisions of states.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
A U.S. state whose statutory juror qualifications or selection method are surveyed as part of the author's state-by-state argument that American juries are generally illegal.
In Connecticut, Maine, Ohio, and Georgia, jurors are required to have the qualifications of “electors.
In Maine and Vermont, the inhabitants, by vote in town meeting, have a veto upon the jurors selected by the authorities of the town.
In Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, certain civil authorities of the towns, cities, and counties are authorized to select, once in one, two, or three years, a certain number of the people—a small number compared with the whole—from whom jurors are to be taken when wanted;
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Continental region cited alongside Gascony as a distant theatre requiring baronial military service.
The small wars with Wales and Scotland formed sufficient drain on the resources of English magnates without their being summoned to fight in Maine or Gascony.