* 1788 – Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.

The Supreme Court of the United States held in its landmark case, McGowan v. Maryland ( 1961 ), that Maryland's blue laws violated neither the Free Exercise Clause nor the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The power delegated to the federal government was significantly expanded by the Supreme Court decision in McCulloch v. Maryland ( 1819 ), amendments to the Constitution following the Civil War, and by some later amendments — as well as the overall claim of the Civil War, that the states were legally subject to the final dictates of the federal government.

Under Marshall, the Court established the principle of judicial review, including specifying itself as the supreme expositor of the Constitution ( Marbury v. Madison ) and made several important constitutional rulings giving shape and substance to the balance of power between the federal government and the states ( prominently, Martin v. Hunter's Lessee, McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden ).

* April 28 – Maryland ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the seventh U. S. state.

* November 16 – Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, American Continental Congressman and Signer of the U. S. Constitution for Maryland ( b. 1723 )

As early as 1819, Chief Justice John Marshall noted in the famous case McCulloch v. Maryland, that " the opinions expressed by the authors of that work have been justly supposed to be entitled to great respect in expounding the Constitution.

The Governor is the highest-ranking official in the state, and he has a broad range of appointive powers in both the State and local governments, as specified by the Maryland Constitution.

The Constitution of Maryland prohibits a Governor from serving more than two consecutive terms.

Under the Maryland Constitution of 1776, the Governor was chosen for one-year terms by both houses of the General Assembly.

The Maryland Constitution of 1851 lengthened the Governor's term of office from three to four years, which brought elections for Governor in line with elections for Federal offices that occur only in even years.

In 1971, the office of Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, which had existed for only a few years in the 1860s, was re-instituted by an amendment to the Maryland Constitution.

John Hanson was elected first President by the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation ; Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer was a signer of the United States Constitution ; and Thomas Stone was one of four of the Maryland delegation who signed the Declaration of Independence.

Both sides of the litigation admitted that the President, directors, and company of the Bank had no authority to establish the Baltimore branch, or office of discount and deposit, other than the fact that Maryland had adopted the Constitution of the United States.

The case was appealed to the Maryland Court of Appeals where the state of Maryland argued that " the Constitution is silent on the subject of banks.

Chief Justice Marshall also determined that Maryland may not tax the bank without violating the Constitution.

In Frank v. Maryland, 359 U. S. 360 ( 1959 ) the Supreme Court recited the Rights of Englishmen, including the " Right to Resist " Unauthorized Deprivations, was incorporated in the Constitution:

In 1981, the NPS defined the official boundaries of the National Mall ( National Mall proper ) as Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues on the north, 1st Street NW on the east, Independence and Maryland Avenues on the south, and 14th Street NW on the west, with the exception of the section of land bordered by Jefferson Drive on the north, Independence Avenue on the south, and by 12th and 14th Streets respectively on the east and west, which the U. S. Department of Agriculture administers and which contains the Jamie L. Whitten Building ( U. S. Department of Agriculture Administration Building ).

Crothers also supported the 1910 Digges Amendment to the Maryland Constitution, which would have used property qualifications to disenfranchise African Americans.

The Digges Amendment was an amendment to the Maryland Constitution proposed in 1910 by the Democratic Party.

Of partial German ancestry, Shriver was a descendant of David Shriver, who signed the Maryland Constitution and Bill of Rights at Maryland's Constitutional Convention of 1776.

Fort McHenry was named after early American statesman James McHenry ( November 16, 1753 – May 3, 1816 ), who was a signer of the United States Constitution from Maryland.

Maryland ratified the Constitution on April 28, 1788 and became the 7th state.

On September 6, 1776, the Maryland Constitutional Convention agreed to a proposal introduced by Thomas Sprigg Wootton wherein Frederick County, the largest and most populous county in Maryland, would be divided into three smaller units.

Congressional power over aspects of local government and elections increased from 1801 to 1965, but with restoration of Presidential elections, and reestablishment of locally elected Mayor and Council, has very slowly moved back toward the rights Maryland had provided from 1776 to 1801.

The portion of Maryland converted into Washington, DC, had been involved in all Maryland elections form before 1776, until 1802.

In 1776, he was commissioned as a Captain of the 5th Company of the Maryland 1st Regiment.

It also raised the first ten companies of Continental troops on a one-year enlistment, riflemen from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and Virginia to be used as light infantry, who later became the 1st Continental Regiment in 1776.

On May 15, 1776 he voted in favor of drafting a declaration of independence, in spite of restrictions from the Maryland convention that prevented their delegates from supporting it.

The Annapolis Convention was an Assembly of the Counties of Maryland that functioned as the colony's revolutionary government from 1774 to 1776.

Although a popular governor and an able administrator, Eden's authority was overthrown by the events of the American Revolution, and in June 1776 he was invited by the Maryland Convention to leave for England.

Eventually the Maryland Convention formally asked the Governor to leave, and Governor Eden finally departed Maryland for England in the ship Fowey on June 23, 1776 ,.

He was created a baronet, of Maryland in North America, in 1776.

Charles was one of the committee of the convention that drafted the Declaration and Charter of Rights and form of government for the state of Maryland which served as Maryland's first new constitution after it was adopted on November 3, 1776.

* Thomas Kennedy ( 1776 – 1832 ), politician in Maryland, United States

The Province of Maryland was an English and later British colony in North America that existed from 1632 until 1776, when it joined the other twelve of the Thirteen Colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and became the U. S. state of Maryland.

Maryland declared independence from Britain in 1776, with Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, and Charles Carroll of Carrollton signing the Declaration of Independence for the colony.

Matthew Tilghman ( February 17, 1718 – May 4, 1790 ) was an American planter and Revolutionary leader from Maryland, who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776.

For three years ( 1774 – 1776 ) he effectively headed the revolution in Maryland.

He was a delegate to the Continental Congress for Maryland in 1776.

Once these laws were nullified by the Maryland constitution of 1776, Carroll was elected to the Senate of the Maryland legislature ( 1777 – 81 ).