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Maryland State House Renovation
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by Mark Newgent, Baltimore History Examiner
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The Maryland General Assembly's 2008 legislative session is thankfully over. Reflecting on the end of the session all I can think of is Oliver Cromwell's rebuke to the rump British Parliament in 1653, “You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately ... Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”
I'm sure others are a bit more satisfied with the results of the session. However, no matter your political persuasion, we should all be excited for the planned renovations to the Maryland State House. The renovations, designed to remodel the Senate chamber to resemble its colonial era format and the House chamber to appear as it did in the mid-19th century.
The Maryland State House is the oldest state house still in active legislative use. Annapolis was at one time the temporary capital of the United States under the loose confederation of states after the Revolutionary War. It was in this same state house that the Continental Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris, ending hostilities between the colonies and Great Britain. General George Washington resigned his commission in the Continental Army in the Maryland Senate chamber, essentially relinquishing the power he had attained as general and putting into practice the beliefs of his fellow founding fathers’ that such absolute power should not reside wit one man
We can only hope that some of the current occupants of the state house and the governor's mansion heed the lessons of the danger to liberty from concentrated power.
Topics: Annapolis , State House , George Washington
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