The earliest forms of representative government were to be found in Maryland from its founding in 1632. In this book, David W. Jordan traces the establishment of the legislative assembly, the development of that central institution through the seventeenth century, and changing opinions about its proper place in the governance of Maryland. Considerable discord initially existed in Maryland and other colonies over the appropriate powers and organization of any assembly of freemen. The colonial proprietors - the Calverts -never envisaged as active a body as many colonists desired, nor one so independent of proprietary dominance. Specific issues of contention varied, but throughout the century debates erupted over the role of the freemen and their representatives within the legislature. Ultimately, the resumption of proprietary authority in 1715 brought an important acknowledgment of substantial gains in representative government that became the foundation of the American political system.
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The earliest forms of representative government were to be found in Maryland from its founding in 1632. David W. Jordan traces the establishment of the legislative assembly, its development through the seventeenth century, and changing opinions about its proper place in the governance of Maryland.
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The Ark and the Dove departed from England on November 22, 1633, with the first settlers destined for Maryland. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
first royal assembly, proprietary circle, royal period, royal placemen, provincial officeholders, perennial rebel, early legislatures, proprietary prerogatives, assize justices, special writs, country borne, public levy, exported tobacco, previous assembly, proprietary authority, temporary laws, county bench, taxable population, proprietary rule, permanent legislation, ordinary householders, proprietary government, lower house, such delegates, early assemblies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lord Baltimore, Leonard Calvert, Charles Calvert, Provincial Court, Biographical Dictionary, Board of Trade, Maryland Historical Magazine, Charles County, Calvert Papers, Number One, Colonial Maryland, Mary's City, Cecilius Calvert, Church of England, History of the Society of Jesus, Mary's County, Lower Western Shore, Anne Arundel, John Coode, Chapel Hill, Maryland's Revolution of Government, Protestant Associators, Historical Collections, Kenelm Cheseldyne, New World New!
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The Ark and the Dove departed from England on November 22, 1633, with the first settlers destined for Maryland. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
first royal assembly, proprietary circle, royal period, royal placemen, provincial officeholders, perennial rebel, early legislatures, proprietary prerogatives, assize justices, special writs, country borne, public levy, exported tobacco, previous assembly, proprietary authority, temporary laws, county bench, taxable population, proprietary rule, permanent legislation, ordinary householders, proprietary government, lower house, such delegates, early assemblies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lord Baltimore, Leonard Calvert, Charles Calvert, Provincial Court, Biographical Dictionary, Board of Trade, Maryland Historical Magazine, Charles County, Calvert Papers, Number One, Colonial Maryland, Mary's City, Cecilius Calvert, Church of England, History of the Society of Jesus, Mary's County, Lower Western Shore, Anne Arundel, John Coode, Chapel Hill, Maryland's Revolution of Government, Protestant Associators, Historical Collections, Kenelm Cheseldyne, New World New!
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- Calvert Papers by George C. Baltimore on 15 pages
- Character of the Province of Maryland by George Alsop on 7 pages
- American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan on 7 pages
- The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century: Essays on Anglo-American Society by David L. Ammerman on 6 pages
- The Quest For Power: The Lower Houses of Assembly in the Southern Royal Colonies, 1689-1776 by Jack P. Greene on 5 pages
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- Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake (Institute of Early American History and Culture) by James P. P. Horn on page 55, page 148, and page 336
- America's History by James A. Henretta on page 69
- Maryland, A Middle Temperament: 1634-1980 (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) by Robert J. Brugger in Back Matter
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