 The 1778 Constitution of the State of South Carolina stated that "No person shall be eligible to sit in the house of representatives unless he be of the Protestant religion", the 1777 Constitution of the State of Georgia (art.VI) that "The representatives shall be chosen out of the residents in each county (…) and they shall be of the Protestent "(sic)" religion".In Maryland, voting rights and eligibility were extended to Jews in 1828.