Record #:

6963

Author(s):

Jonsson, Patrik

Abstract:

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.

Source:

Metro Magazine (NoCar F 264 R1 M48), Vol. 5 Issue 11, Nov 2004, p24-29, il

Subject(s):

United States. Constitution--1st-10th amendments--Manuscripts