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The Bill of Rights Comes Home

Record #:
30730
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Abstract:
North Carolina’s original copy of the Bill of Rights is returned after a lengthy lawsuit. The manuscript had been missing for 140 years after it was taken by a Union soldier during the occupation of Raleigh. Drafted by federal clerks in 1789, the document is one of fourteen original copies.
Source:
Carolina Comments (NoCar F 251 C38), Vol. 53 Issue 4, Oct 2005, p113-118