Dobbs County Election of Convention Delegates To Vote For TheUnited States Constitution

Record #:

44028

Author(s):

Darden III, Cliff

Abstract:

Several newspaper lengthy newspaper accounts from the North Carolina Gazette, Wilmington Centinel and Columbian Herald for April, May and July 1788 record violence between Federalists and Anti-federalists over adoption of the U.S. Constitution. North Carolina was the only state that required a "bill of rights' before it would approve the Constitution.

Source:

Trees of Wilson (NoCar F262 .W7 W5), Vol. Issue , March 2024, p30-31

Subject(s):

Dobbs County--United States Constitution; Constitutional Convention--North Carolina--Ratification