Maryland Quotes
He never actually set foot in Maryland but governed through deputies.
In 1639 the Maryland Assembly recorded what was probably the first American attempt to obtain the vote for women.
He was a Loyalist Tory and generally opposed to independence. The passion of the other politicians at the First Continental Congress surprised him greatly.
The Iroquois had a very successful confederacy of 6 tribes in a relatively democratic government with a written constitution. They dominated the Eastern part of North America for years. The were able to maintain a permanent unity with a unified and decentralized combination of government—much like the United States would become. At the time of this advice, each American colony was a government unto itself. The three Iroquois Indian delegates were Canassatego, Tachanoontia, and Gachradodow.
By the beginning of the 21st Century, some Republicans had perfected the art of naming legislation completely contrary to its intent and effect in order to make opposition to it more difficult for opponents in the legislature. But nothing they ever did came close to the audacity of naming this legislation, The Toleration Act, as it was about the most intolerant legislation ever passed in America. Exactly what the motivation of the legislative drafters was is not known. One theory is that as a Catholic Colony, perhaps they really thought that they were being tolerant as they would not execute Protestants except Unitarians. In any event is was a low point in American history and was one of the examples that was before the Founding Fathers when they added the First Amendment to the Constitution. See {624142} for the text.
This was one of the first and is considered the best of the Colonial arguments against taxation without representation. The argument here about exports also affected other commodities—see {636866}. Despite this, Dulany is not well known in American history because when the Revolution finally came he was a loyalist.
The poem’s words later became the words to The Star’s Spangled Banner which was adopted as our national anthem. There are some who have objected to this inclusion in this collection on the grounds that Key, as the Washington District Attorney, very harshly suppressed the anti-slavery movement that was
What was particularly interesting about this quotation is that Pinkney was a political leader of Maryland, a slave state. See {632259} and {632257} for more on this point.
