| Syllabus and Course Description
The general themes of the day's sessions will be the creation, importation,
and interpretation of Maryland law, with emphasis on the definition of
sovereignty and citizenship, domestic and race relations, toleration, professionalization
in and of the law, and the art of Constitution writing that is the hallmark
of the final decade of the colonial period.
For those who use the computer, the syllabus, bibliography, and a chronology
will be posted on http://msa.maryland.gov. Your user name is judicial
and the password is fatti! Once you are into the site, go
to modify and edit series and then to the Judicial Institute home page.
There you will find the readings on line as well as hyperlinks to some
of the other materials we will be using in class. By the day of the
institute there will also be a draft chronology of Maryland Law through
1776. If you have any difficulties accessing the files on ecpclio.net,
call Ed Papenfuse at 410-260-6401. He or Kathy Beard will provide
assistance.
The general outline of the day's activities breaks down as follows:
(times are approximate and subject to change)
9-10:30 a.m. presentation: 'The Bishopric of Durham, The Maryland
Charter, and the Origins of Maryland Sovereignty"
10:30-10:45 a.m break
10:45-11:45 a.m. group particpation in readings from the records relating
to defining the law and sovereign power prior to 1694 (please review Carr and Papenfuse short biography of Philip Calvert, and Carr essay on Margaret Brent.)
11:45 a.m. -12:30 p.m. group discussion with Lois Carr and Jeff Sawyer
concerning toleration, women, children, and the relevance of Calvin's
Case (1609) in the development of Maryland Colonial Law
12:30-1:30 p.m. lunch
1:30-2:45 p.m. citizenship, precedent, codification, and professionalization
of the law: examples and case studies, with discussion of Mathias DeSousa,
Thomas McNamara, Daniel Dulany (3), Thomas Bacon, and others (with
the exception of DeSousa, largely concentrated on the period after 1694).
2:45-3:00 p.m. break
3:00-4:30 p.m. Writing It All Down: the articulated urge
to define constitutional principles and the law, with emphasis on the Constitutional
Convention of August-September 1776 and the Hestitant Revolutionaries
who comprised the last of nine extra-legal conventions that had assumed
the sovereign powers of governing Maryland beginning in 1775.
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