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Abstract:
From 1817 to 1827 Bartlett Yancey held the office of Speaker of the North Carolina Senate, the legislature's most influential post at the time. Yancey was known for his natural oratorical gifts and for exercising sound discernment in governing the affairs of the Internal Improvement Committee of the General Assembly.\r\n
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This article examines the spirit and egalitarianism of Jacksonian Democracy on the state level rather than the national level via an examination of the state constitutional convention of 1835. The legal reforms brought on by Jackson's presidency were so extensive that several states required constitutional conventions to make the necessary changes to their laws. North Carolina's constitutional convention is exemplary of the various influences at work on the delegates and of the mood of the times, as well as providing insight into the phenomenon of Jacksonian Democracy on a local level.