Thank you, Maryland!
Our 50K Race to Liberty has landed in Western Maryland, from Westminster, Thurmont and Frederick to the pan-handle of Hagerstown, Williamsport and Cumberland with 27,535 petition signers. Since August, over 2,500 Marylanders have stepped up and signed up with the Convention of States cause.
The Appalachian Mountains and Potomac River run through this region. Western Maryland was inhabited by the Algoquins, Kruskaraw, Wassa, Womenkes, Iroquois, Delawares and Catawbas Indians. The first non-Native Americans to record visits to the Williamsport area included a young surveyor named George Washington in the mid-1700s.
The Western Maryland region is replete with George Washington tributes. In 1755, during the French and Indian War, Colonel George Washington guided British General Braddock using Indian trails from Fort Cumberland over the rugged mountains to Fort Duquesne in Pennsylvania. 
Cumberland is home to Colonel Washington’s headquarters during the French and Indian War and his first military command. The cabin was originally built for General Braddock, between 1755 and 1758. Washington returned in 1794 as the Commander in Chief to review the troops gathered to put down the Whiskey Rebellion.
Williamsport was founded in 1787 by Brigadier General Otho Holland Williams, a Revolutionary War hero and compatriot of General George Washington. President George Washington visited Williamsport October 14, 1794, as part of a tour of several potential capital city sites on the Potomac River. Although he did not choose Williamsport, the town flourished.
Located atop South Mountain in Boonsboro is Washington Monument, the first completed monument dedicated to the memory of George Washington. The Washington Monument is a rugged stone tower that was initially erected by the citizens of Boonsboro in 1827.
The Maryland General Assembly of 1777 set aside the State lands "Westward of Fort Cumberland" for Maryland veterans of the Continental Army. This became Garrett County. In Frederick County, The Hessian Barracks were used to imprison mercenary soldiers from Germany, 1780-1781. Thousands of Hessian soldiers who fought with the British and lost in the battles of Yorktown, Saratoga, and Trenton were detained here. One of the Frederick Barracks is preserved and remains on the grounds of the Maryland School for the Deaf.
Carroll County is named after Charles Carroll, a member of the Continental Congress, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. He also helped to write Maryland’s Constitution of 1776. Carroll, the only Catholic signer of the Constitution, was a champion of religious liberty. He successfully fought to have religious liberty for all Christians, including Catholics, guaranteed by the Maryland Constitution of 1776. After American independence was achieved, he served in the United States Senate and the Maryland legislature.
Then there is Thomas Johnson of Frederick and Maryland’s first elected Governor. He represented Maryland at the Constitutional Conventions. In 1791, Washington appointed him as the head of the Board of Commissioners of the Federal City with fellow Marylander Daniel Carroll and Dr. David Stuart. The Commissioners agreed upon a site for the new national capital and named it 'the City of Washington.' Johnson went on to serve as a member of Congress and President George Washington appointed him to the Supreme Court.
“'Mr. Johnson was among the first in the Union to assert the just claims of his country against the tyranny and oppression of Great Britain and was early in life honoured with the most important and arduous trusts which his countrymen could confer...”
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Marylanders played an extraordinary role in the founding of our nation. Like Thomas Johnson, Charles Carroll and Daniel Carroll, Marylanders can yet again play an extraordinary role in repairing our nation by standing up to a tyrannical government that breaks its promises to the people. Thomas Johnson and Daniel Carroll helped create Washington, DC. Today, Marylanders can restore the nation’s capital to its original promise of 1791.
Across Maryland, citizens are rejecting state sponsored racism in their schools and repudiating federal overreach in a post-pandemic America.
If you’re concerned for the future of our country--under a federal government that's increasingly bloated, corrupt, reckless, and invasive--there is a constitutional option. We can call a Convention of States to bring power back to the states and the people, where it belongs.
Our Convention of States Maryland journey began with 1 signature in September 2014. We launched our Race to Liberty with 25,000 signatures in July 2021. We are taking our Race across the State of Maryland, gathering signatures, and recognizing our state history along the way.
Be 1 of 50,000 Marylanders to join our Race to Liberty by signing the petition at Convention of States Action today and pass this along to your friends and family.
