![]() Three factors were principally responsible: (1) the quality of the leadership, furnished mostly by lawyers (2) the personality of the last Proprietary Governor, Sir Robert Eden and (3) the conditions created by the Proprietorship. No other colony effected the transition with less turbulence. "The most difficult and dangerous part of the business Americans have to do in this mighty contest is to contrive some method for the Colonies to glide insensibly from under the old government into a peaceable and contented submission to the new ones." It approached the ideal stated by John Adams in a letter of April 16, 1776, to Mercy Otis Warren: Patriotism, or the lack of it, was not a matter of affluence, and the change from Proprietary to State government was effected with little social turmoil. In Maryland, unlike some of the other colonies, the American Revolution was not a class war. It was drafted with great expedition and apparent unanimity by a committee of seven, all of whom had been trained in the law. It was also remarkable in another respect. Its frame of government was designed to perpetuate the existing social order minus Crown and Proprietary. The Maryland Constitution of 1776 was one of the least revolutionary documents of that revolutionary period. Writing It All Down - Maryland Constitution Writing It All Down: The Art of Constitution Making for the State and the Nation, 1776-1833Į-mail: Maryland Constitution - 1776 by H.H. ![]()
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