Record #:

6728

Author(s):

Johnson, Clint

Abstract:

North Carolina refused to ratify the new Constitution in 1788, unless a list of rights for all citizens was added to it. To win over North Carolina and other states, James Madison sent twelve handwritten copies of the rights to the states; they were accepted. Today this list is known as the Bill of Rights. After the Civil War, the state's handwritten copy was stolen by a Union soldier and carried to Ohio. Johnson follows the document's trail from there until it was recovered in Philadelphia by the FBI in 2003.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 2, July 2004, p23-25, il

Subject(s):

United States. Constitution--1st-10th amendments--Manuscripts