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19598
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Continuation of an article appearing in January 1928, details the highly politicized debate concerning a constitutional amendment to establish voting districts which raged on from the end of the War of 1812 through the 1820s. The historic documentation of the debate concerning this amendment within the state is reprinted in this series of articles.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 5 Issue 2, April 1928,
p204-223, f
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34596
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John Roberts was elected to the North Carolina House of Commons in 1804 where he served until 1816. During this career, Roberts was a commissioned Lieutenant Colonel during 1813-1814 following the War of 1812 and worked as an assistant paymaster. He was elected to State Senate in 1816, however his term was short lived. In the winter of 1816, Roberts was accused of forgery and fraud relating to his work as a paymaster. While Roberts was eventually acquitted, the trial persisted until 1823. Roberts died shortly after he was found not guilty.
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7836
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The majority of North Carolinian's delegates were Anti-Federalists who voted to reject the federal constitution in 1788. Out of 268 delegates in North Carolina William R. Davie, Alexander Martin, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson, and William Blount were elected by the General Assembly to serve as founding fathers. The following year opinion shifted and North Carolina became the twelfth state to ratify the constitution.
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9954
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Mrs. Moffitt Sinclair Henderson of Salisbury used her personal copy of “Proceedings and Debates of the convention of North Carolina Called to Amend the Constitution of the State†as source material for her new book on the life of Samuel Price Carson. The volume, given to Mrs. Henderson by her maternal grandfather who was Carson's brother, contains eyewitness accounts of what may have been North Carolina's first public debate on civil rights. Delegates to the 1835 convention met in Raleigh to amend the original constitution of North Carolina and heard impassioned arguments by Carson supporting a failed bid to strike Article 32, which restricted Catholics and Jews from holding public office. Carson left North Carolina soon after the convention, following his friend Sam Houston to Texas and helping to establish that new Republic, eventually becoming its first Secretary of State.
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17141
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Hicklin recounts a little-remembered incident in Western North Carolina in the period following the Revolutionary War. In 1784, citizens there felt isolated from the eastern section because of the Appalachian Mountains and formed, along with citizens in Eastern Tennessee, their own state called Franklin. It didn't last.
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10686
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Hart recounts an unusual and little-remembered incident in the early history of North Carolina. In 1784, residents in the western part of the state felt isolated from the eastern section because of the Appalachian Mountains and formed their own state called Franklin.
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