| Dear Horst:
If I have not put you in contact with Dan before this, I should have.
Dan is the authority on Maryland's Constitution and you should be in correspondence with each other.
I will do what I can to sort out the amendments for you over the next couple of weeks, but Dan can be most helpful as well (I have cc'd him on this).
I thought you might like to see his most recent piece in the Daily Record on removal of judges.
As to failed amendments, because the constitution required two legislatures to pass proposed constitutional amendments, failed amendments are not easy to search out and document (as you know). We are attempting to put all proceedings of the Legislature on line, beginning with those sessions that addressed constitutional issues. Unfortunately until just recently we have not had the resources to index well all the work we have done to date. Hopefully that will be rectified soon with the addition of a specialize Google search engine for our site which encompasses the Archives of Maryland series.
Ed
Dear Ed:
Thank you so much. I shall be very happy to get in touch with Dan. Indeed, my idea is, if I may, to send him my editions when ready, and it should be great if Dan can look through them and correct me where I shall be wrong, or add if he shall find anything missing.
Ideally, I shall be through with them tomorrow evening, but I have still to deal with the years 1831-1851, for which you list 23 adoped amendments, plus those which failed. Regarding that, so far, I managed to get done only ten amendments, today, I may need more time for the rest. In this case, I shall send onn Tuesday what I have, and the rest will follow later, as I have to finish our second volume with the last two Kansas constitutions (Lecompton and Leavenworth), as the Kansas State Historical Society only managed to put the handwritten originals last week on their website.
After that, my schedule is to get volume 3, containing Maryland, ready until the end of May, otherwise it will not be before the end of July.
I shall appreciate to obtain your manuscripts of the Maryland constitutions as soon as may be.
Best,
Horst
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