Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: “For the Good and Happy Government” of Maryland
- Part I “In the Infancy of This Plantation”: 1632–1660
- Part II “Lord Baltimore's Politick Maximes”: 1660–1689
- Part III “Wee Your Majesties Most Humble and Loyall Subjects”: 1689–1715
- 5 “By the Name of the Country Borne”
- 6 “We More Immediately Represent the People”
- Epilogue: “Our Present Happy Protestant Constitution”
- Appendixes
- A Note on the Sources
- Index
6 - “We More Immediately Represent the People”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: “For the Good and Happy Government” of Maryland
- Part I “In the Infancy of This Plantation”: 1632–1660
- Part II “Lord Baltimore's Politick Maximes”: 1660–1689
- Part III “Wee Your Majesties Most Humble and Loyall Subjects”: 1689–1715
- 5 “By the Name of the Country Borne”
- 6 “We More Immediately Represent the People”
- Epilogue: “Our Present Happy Protestant Constitution”
- Appendixes
- A Note on the Sources
- Index
Summary
Your familiarity and pretended Equallity with the Right honble the House of Comons in England is enough to provoke and surprize us at once. … we are far from pretending to that Rt honble house of Lords or Rt honble house of comons in England. We do not desire you should be abridged of the least priviledge belonging to you, but when your demands are better Tempered with Justice or Modesty they will better become you to aske or his Majestys Governor to grant.
Members of the upper house to delegates of the lower house, October 1698We cannot help your differing in Judgement from us but since you must own we more immediately represent the People than your Honble Board you must allow us to know more of their Oppressions and we offer the properest Remedies we can to relieve them.
Delegates of the lower house to members of the upper house, November 1712During the second week of May 1692, St. Mary's City thronged with its largest gathering in years. The legislature's sitting always occasioned special opportunities for business transactions and for pleasure, but this spring an unusual air of anticipation and curiosity prevailed. Sir Lionel Copley, the new governor, was convening the first royal assembly. Most people were anxious to observe the chief executive and to commemorate the inauguration of royal rule.
Copley had moved quickly upon arrival that spring to establish his authority.
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- Foundations of Representative Government in Maryland, 1632–1715 , pp. 183 - 232Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1988