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Abstract:
Federalists believed the United States would fail without a stronger central government and supported ratification and adoption of the Constitution. Perhaps nowhere in the new nation was the battle between Federalists and Anti-Federalists more contested than in North Carolina. Initially the state voted in Hillsborough in 1788 not to ratify the document but at the same time did not reject it. Another convention in Fayetteville in 1789 eventually succeeded when protections argued by the Anti-Federalists were met with amendments to the Constitution.
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.
Abstract:
After fighting to win independence from Great Britain with its centralized government and unpopular taxation, North Carolina was in fact very reluctant to participate in the Constitutional Convention but eventually did so, initially electing Richard Caswell, William R. Davie, Willie Jones, Alexander Martin and Richard Dobbs Speight as representatives.