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Click to enlargeLiberty and Freedom: <br>North Carolina's Tour <br>of the Bill of Rights

Edited by Kenrick N. Simpson

On March 24, 2008, the Wake County Superior Court ended five years of litigation when it ruled that North Carolina’s copy of the Bill of Rights belonged to the State.

In an effort to bring North Carolina’s copy of the Bill of Rights to the people, the document was exhibited at seven locations throughout the state in 2007. The seven essays in this volume were presented as keynote addresses by their authors at the venues of that tour.

  • Charlene Bangs Bickford, project director of the First Federal Congress Project at George Washington University, writes about the events surrounding the creation and ratification of the Bill of Rights.
  • Attorneys W. Dale Talbert and Karen A. Blum discuss the history of the North Carolina’s copy of the Bill of Rights, especially the legal efforts to prove the State’s ownership of the document.
  • Historians William S. Price Jr., Alan D. Watson, and Freddie L. Parker examine respectively freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech.
  • Attorney and civil rights advocate Julius L. Chambers discusses freedom of assembly and the right to petition the government for grievances.
  • Judge Willis P. Whichard analyzes the history of the dual rights of trial by jury and due process of law.
    Pp. xiii, 121. Illus. Index. (2009) (t)




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