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...commander for the southern region, who demanded last month that the Maryland Council "get rid of their damn'd government." The Baltimore Committee of Observation sent a band of men to kidnap Eden, but the Annapolis authorities repelled them. Only in May did the Maryland State Convention finally request that Eden "depart peaceably with all his effects." Eden agreed. A fortnight ago, the entire Annapolis Council of Safety went to take what one witness called "an affectionate leave of their late supreme magistrate." As he boarded a British warship, the citizenry presented him with several sheep, lambs and baby...
...South Carolina made a similar request for congressional advice and got a similar answer, but the constitution it approved in March is quite different. Unlike New Hampshire, South Carolina now has a "President and commander in chief with the power to veto bills passed by the legislature...
...over is required to have a gun for his militia duty; but some of these arms get lost or damaged. Washington announced not long ago: "For every [musket] with a bayonet that have not been abused, I will give 12 dollars." Not too many have answered that request, though, for a new gun now costs 15 to 18 Spanish dollars or other coin...
...basic reform of the common-law system-which regards married women as legal nonentities with virtually no property rights-is not likely to come from John Adams, however. He responded to his mutinous wife's "saucy" request with characteristic firmness: "As to your extraordinary code of laws, I cannot but laugh." The delegates, he added, "know better than to repeal our masculine systems" and would fight the "despotism of the petticoat...
Next weekend in Puerto Rico, the heads of state of six other major industrial nations−an insistent Canada was invited along with Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Japan−will gather at President Ford's request. The potential domestic political benefit of summitry in his struggle for the Republican presidential nomination has hardly escaped Ford. That, and the Italian elections, probably account for the timing. Whatever the motivation, there is no shortage of real-life problems crying for attention: the economic woes of Britain and Italy and their sagging currencies, the fragmented approach of the industrial nations...