American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

South Carolina (May 23, 1788) was the 8th State admitted to the Union. The Constitution of the State of South Carolina, adopted 1778, stated: <Preamble. We, the people of the State of South Carolina...grateful to God for our liberties, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the preservation and perpetuation of the same.> 1788SC001 <Article III. [Privy Council and State officers to be] all of the Protestant religion.> 1788SC002 <Article XII....The qualifications of electors shall be that every...person, who acknowledges the being of a God, and believes in the future state of rewards and punishments...[is eligible to vote].  No person shall be...

Maryland State Seal (April 28, 1788) was approved the year Maryland was admitted to the Union. The State Seal pictured a farmer and a fisherman, reflecting the occupations of the early settlers; a shield with the coat of arms of the Calverts and the Crosslands (Alicia Crossland was the mother of the first Baron of Baltimore, George Calvert); and beneath the shield is the Latin motto: <Scuto Bonae Voluntatis Tuae Coronasti Nos (Thou hast crowned us with the shield of Thy good will-Psalms 5:12).> 1788MD010 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use...

Maryland (April 28, 1788) was the 7th State admitted to the Union. The Constitution of the State of Maryland, adopted 1776, stated: <Preamble. We, the people of the state of Maryland, grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious liberty.> 1788MD001 <Article XXXV. That no other test or qualification ought to be required, on admission to any office of trust or profit, than such oath of support and fidelity to this State and such oath of office, as shall be directed by this Convention, or the Legislature of this State, and a declaration of a belief in the Christian...

Massachusetts (February 6, 1788): was the 6th State admitted to the Union. The Constitution of Massachusetts, adopted 1780, stated: <Preamble. We, therefore, the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the goodness of the great Legislator of the Universe, in affording us, in the course of His Providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud, violence, or surprise, of entering into an original, explicit, and solemn compact with each other;...and devoutly imploring His direction in so interesting a design.> 1788MA001 The Constitution of Massachusetts, adopted 1780, stated: <The Governor shall be chosen annually; and no person shall be eligible to this...

Connecticut (January 9, 1788) was the 5th State admitted to the Union. The Constitution of the State of Connecticut, adopted 1776, stated: <The People of this State...by the Providence of God...hath the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent State...and forasmuch as the free fruition of such liberties and privileges as humanity, civility, and Christianity call for, as is due to every man in his place and proportion...hath ever been, and will be the tranquility and stability of Churches and Commonwealth; and the denial thereof, the disturbances, if not the ruin of both.(until 1818)> 1788CT001...