Article VIII, Maryland Constitution
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Article VIII of theMaryland Constitution is entitledEducation and consists of three sections.
Section 1
| Text of Section 1: The General Assembly, at its First Session after the adoption of this Constitution, shall by Law establish throughout the State a thorough and efficient System of Free Public Schools; and shall provide by taxation, or otherwise, for their maintenance.[1] |
Section 2
| Text of Section 2: The System of Public Schools, as now constituted, shall remain in force until the end of the said First Session of the General Assembly, and shall then expire; except so far as adopted, or continued by the General Assembly.[1] |
Section 3
| Text of Section 3: The School Fund of the State shall be kept inviolate, and appropriated only to the purposes of Education.[1] |
See also
- State constitution
- Constitutional article
- Constitutional amendment
- Constitutional revision
- Constitutional convention
- Amendments
External links
- Maryland.gov, "Maryland Constitution"
- FromThe Archives of Maryland, "Constitutional Records"
- Maryland.gov, "Statewide Ballot Question Results"
- Teaching American History in Maryland, "Maryland Constitutions", a list of primary and secondary resources about the Maryland Constitution and its history.
Additional reading
- Friedman, Dan (2006).The Maryland State Constitution: A Reference Guide, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing
- Rees, Charles A. (2007). "Remarkable Evolution: The Early Constitutional History of Maryland" inUniversity of Baltimore Law Review, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2007
- Ridgway, Whitman H. (2001). "(Maryland in) the Nineteenth Century" from theMaryland Humanities Council
- Berg-Andersson, Richard E. (2004). "Constitutions of the Several states" fromThe Green Papers
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