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List of Governors of Maryland at AllExperts (267 words) |
 | Governors Elected by the Legislature under the Maryland Constitution of 1776 |
| Blair Lee III served as acting governor from 1977-1979 in place of Marvin Mandel. |
| *Archives of Maryland, Historical List, Governors of Maryland, 1634–present. |
| Jonathan Belcher: Governor in the Emerging Trilateral Center (5718 words) |
| But as long as the colonies were divided, with each colonial concerned only for his own interests and the interests of his own colony, and not as concerned for the welfare of the citizens of the other colonies, the Americans would not muster the initiative to create such an intercolonial, America-wide military force. |
| Halifax's period of greatest activity was 1750-1754, when he intimidated local colonial politicians by proposing wide-sweeping measures for overhauling the administration of the American colonies and frightened colonials accustomed to believing their own version of the British constitution--that colonial assemblies were on a legislative parity with the British Parliament. |
| The colonial assemblies were to elect the members of this representative council, and unlike Bladen's bicameral Plantation Parliament, Franklin's Grand Council was to function as a unicameral legislature, whose acts were subject to the veto of the (Crown-appointed) President General. |
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