Luther Martin

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American politician and leading Anti-Federalist (1748-1826)

United States PoliticiansLived 1748 to 1826 · aged 78

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S. Constitution, politician, lawyer, and slave owner. Martin was a delegate from Maryland to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, but did not sign the Constitution, having left the convention early because he felt the document as proposed violated states' rights.

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Martin among the Constitutional Convention delegates in the U.S. National Archives 1936 Faulkner Mural, located in the building's rotunda above the Charters of Freedom.

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Luther Martin was a Founding Father of the United States, framer of the U.S. Constitution, politician, lawyer, and slave owner. Martin was a delegate from Maryland to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, but did not sign the Constitution, having left the convention early because he felt the document as proposed violated states' rights. In the months following the convention, he was a leading Anti-Federalist, along with Patrick Henry and George Mason, whose collective efforts led to the passage of the Bill of Rights.

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