Record #:

44000

Author(s):

Stroud, Jason

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.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 63 Issue 2, Spring 2024, p54-55, il

Subject(s):

Constitutional Convention--North Carolina--Ratification