Maryland
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the state of Maryland
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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
One of the original states whose constitution is quoted to show that the term 'state' consistently denotes a sovereign, self-governing political society.
The delegates to congress from this state shall be chosen by joint ballot of both houses of assembly.
“The principle, for which the state of Maryland contends, is capable of arresting all the measures of the general government, and of prostrating it at the foot of the states.
The state of Maryland had not disputed the constitutionality of the bank, but had exercised its concurrent right of taxation;
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
State whose common-law guaranty is argued incompatible with prior slave statutes.
Maryland had also, in her new constitution, a specific provision incompatible with the acts on her colonial statute book in regard to slavery, to wit:
This guaranty, of “the common law of England” to all “the inhabitants of Maryland,” without discrimination, is incompatible with any slave acts that existed on the statute book;
That the inhabitants”—mark the word, for it includes all the inhabitants—“that the inhabitants of Maryland are entitled to the common law of England, and the trial by jury, according to the course of that law,” &c.
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 New Jersey, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi, the jurors are required to be freeholders.