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- North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history [1909 : January, v.8 : no.3]
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- Date
- January 1909
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- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history [1909 : January, v.8 : no.3]
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THE NORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET.
Vol. VIII JANUARY. 1909 No. 3
THE MECKLENBURG DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE.
BY
Л.
S. SALI.EY, JR.
For nearly ten years prior to the adoption of constitutional
forms of government by the several British provinces of
North America, following the breaking out of hostilities in
1775, those constitutions had been evoluting from the extra-
legal committees that lmd from time to lime during those
years been organized at town and county meetings in the dif¬
ferent sections of America. With the arising of each new
cause for political dissatisfaction the number and iniiuciico
of these local committees increased, and as their strength
and influence increased they assumed greater powers or were
voted them by the people in town or county meetings.
When the passage of the Boston Port Bill, as it was popu¬
larly called, by the Parliament of Groat Britain in 1771 be¬
came known in the several provinces the local committees
called meetings of the inhabitants, at which delegates were
elected to provincial conventions.
The first provincial convention of North Carolina was held
in New Bern August 25, 20, and 27, 1774. On the last day
resolutions appropriate to the existing political conditions in
America were adopted, wherein was incorporated the follow¬
ing recommendation looking to a closer union of the people
of the province :
anil it is recommended to the deputies of the several Counties, That a
Committee of five persons be chosen in each County by such persons as
acceed to this association to take effectual care that these Resolves be
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