North Carolina Supplemental Documents Ratification of the Constitution by the States
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The supplemental documents are intended to provide a fuller documentation and understanding of the debate over the ratification of the Constitution in North Carolina than was possible in the printed volumes of the Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution (Wisconsin Historical Society Press/Center for the Study of the American Constitution). This supplement includes 110 letters, 96 newspaper items, 20 petitions, 14 diary entries, and a variety of legislative and convention records, including a transcription of the entire journal of the Hillsborough Convention. Except for some photographic reproductions (facsimiles), the documents consist mostly of literal transcripts. The documents are arranged chronologically with the exception of the grouping North Carolina Convention Journal, 21 July-4 August 1788. This Supplement contains five facsimile groupings: North Carolina General Assembly balloting for a place for holding the Convention and General Assembly, Hillsborough Convention Election Certificates (134 items); Petitions calling for a Second North Carolina Convention (20 items); Fayetteville Convention Election Certificates (140 items); and James Glasgow: Certification of printed Ratification of North Carolina.
North Carolina Supplemental Documents Ratification of the Constitution by the States John P. Kaminski and Charles H. Schoenleber and Sarah K. Danforth and Margaret R. Flamingo and Thomas H. Linley and Timothy D. Moore and Anna M. Biermeier and David P. Fields and Jonathan M. Reid and Christopher S. Berry and Gaspare J. Saladino and Johanna E. Lannér-Cusin
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The supplemental documents are intended to provide a fuller documentation and understanding of the debate over the ratification of the Constitution in North Carolina than was possible in the printed volumes of the Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution (Wisconsin Historical Society Press/Center for the Study of the American Constitution). This supplement includes 110 letters, 96 newspaper items, 20 petitions, 14 diary entries, and a variety of legislative and convention records, including a transcription of the entire journal of the Hillsborough Convention. Except for some photographic reproductions (facsimiles), the documents consist mostly of literal transcripts. The documents are arranged chronologically with the exception of the grouping North Carolina Convention Journal, 21 July-4 August 1788. This Supplement contains five facsimile groupings: North Carolina General Assembly balloting for a place for holding the Convention and General Assembly, Hillsborough Convention Election Certificates (134 items); Petitions calling for a Second North Carolina Convention (20 items); Fayetteville Convention Election Certificates (140 items); and James Glasgow: Certification of printed Ratification of North Carolina.