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The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was the first law in North America requiring religious tolerance for Christians. It was passed on April 21, 1649, by the assembly of the Maryland colony, in St. Mary's City in St. Mary's County, Maryland. It created one of the pioneer statutes passed by the legislative body ...
Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (8 August 1605 – 30 November 1675) was an English peer, politician, and lawyer who was the first proprietor of Maryland.Born in Kent, England in 1605, he inherited the proprietorship of overseas colonies in Avalon (Newfoundland) (off the eastern coast of the North America continent), along with Maryland after the 1632 death of his father, George Calvert ...
Maryland had long practiced an uneasy form of religious tolerance among different groups of Christians. In 1649, Maryland passed the Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, a law mandating religious tolerance for trinitarian Christians. Passed on September 21, 1649, by the assembly of the Maryland colony, it was the ...
The Province of Maryland [1] was an English and later British colony in North America from 1634 [2] until 1776, when the province was one of the Thirteen Colonies that joined in supporting the American Revolution against Great Britain. In 1781, Maryland was the 13th signatory to the Articles of Confederation.
In R v Medical Appeal Tribunal, ex parte Gilmore (1957), [6] the legality of the total ouster clause in section 36(3) of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1946 [10] was doubted by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, which issued a certiorari (which would today be called a quashing order) against the Medical Appeal Tribunal ...
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Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown submitted a motion to dismiss in a lawsuit against the Maryland State Board of Elections on Monday, asserting that those who brought the complaint lack ...
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