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On March 24th, Judge Henry W. Hight Jr. awarded North Carolina formal ownership of the state's original copy of the Bill of Rights. North Carolina's copy had been removed from the capitol by a Union officer and confiscated by the FBI in Philadelphia. The document will remain in state archives vaults.
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8558
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North Carolina refused to ratify the new Constitution in 1788, unless a list of rights for all citizens was added to it. To win over North Carolina and other states, James Madison sent twelve handwritten copies of the rights to the states; they were accepted. Today this list is known as the Bill of Rights. After the Civil War, the state's handwritten copy was stolen by a Union soldier and carried to Ohio. The document remained lost until the FBI recovered it in Philadelphia 2003. It is now back in North Carolina. In 2007, the document will be exhibited at several sites around the state. Each stop will include special programs highlighting different amendments.
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16665
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North Carolina's original copy of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States was stolen by Federal forces from the State Capitol in 1865 and recently recovered in an undercover operation in 2003. The document will be on display at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh as part of a statewide traveling display.
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6728
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North Carolina refused to ratify the new Constitution in 1788, unless a list of rights for all citizens was added to it. To win over North Carolina and other states, James Madison sent twelve handwritten copies of the rights to the states; they were accepted. Today this list is known as the Bill of Rights. After the Civil War, the state's handwritten copy was stolen by a Union soldier and carried to Ohio. Johnson follows the document's trail from there until it was recovered in Philadelphia by the FBI in 2003.
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6959
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North Carolina refused to ratify the new Constitution in 1788, unless a list of rights for all citizens was added to it. To win over North Carolina and other states, James Madison sent twelve handwritten copies of the rights to the states; they were accepted. Today this list is known as the Bill of Rights. After the Civil War, the state's handwritten copy was stolen by a Union soldier who carried it to Ohio and later sold it to Charles A. Shotwell. The article follows the document's trail from the Shotwell sale in 1866, until it was recovered in Philadelphia by the FBI in 2003. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina ruled in January 2004 that the document belongs to the State as a public document; however, Judge Terrence W. Boyle ordered the U.S. marshal in Raleigh to hold the document until final resolution of any appeals.
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6963
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North Carolina refused to ratify the new Constitution in 1788, unless a list of rights for all citizens was added to it. To win over North Carolina and other states, James Madison sent twelve handwritten copies of the rights to the states; they were accepted. Today this list is known as the Bill of Rights. After the Civil War, the state's handwritten copy was stolen from Raleigh by a Union soldier and carried to Ohio. Jonsson follows the exciting events from the theft of the document in 1865 to a clever sting operation by federal law enforcement officials that recovered the historic paper in Philadelphia in 2003.
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17045
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Union soldiers may have spared Raleigh's architecture when they sacked the city in 1865, but they made off with more than a few chickens; the prize was an original Bill of Rights, signed by John and Samuel Adams. The North Carolina bill turned up again in Philadelphia in 2003 and came home to North Carolina after 138 years.
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12990
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North Carolina refused to ratify the Constitution in 1789 because it lacked a Bill of Rights. The state held out for eighteen months before signing. Heatherly recounts the events.
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