...ereign political community,) forcibly says, at page 126, of Vol. I of that if so, then the colony of Maryland must have been in a state of rebellion against the other colonies, as well as against Great Britain , from 1778 to 1781, during which period Maryland refused to ratify or be bound by the Articles of Confederation, which instrument, if Judge Story's theory be correct, was, as Mr. Davis pertinently r...