The convention of 1835
By: by Henry Groves Connor
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: History; Constitutional history; Constitutional conventions; Representative government and representation; Free African Americans; Suffrage; Religion and state; North Carolina. Constitutional Convention (1835)
Other titles: North Carolina booklet.; The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Description: This article describes events that led to the calling of the convention in 1835 and the subsequent debates on the constitution as it was drafted and applied to the state of North Carolina. It focuses on issues that were extensively debated by the delegates, such as equal representation across the state, the decision to deny free African Americans the right to vote, and the 32nd article of the Constitution, which required state officeholders to hold certain religious beliefs, where the language was changed to read "Christian" belief instead of "Protestant."
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This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.

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Transcribed from: The convention of 1835 / by Henry Groves Connor, one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. Raleigh : Edwards & Broughton Print. Co., 1908. 24 p. ; 23 cm. Reprint. Originally published: North Carolina booklet, Oct. 1908.

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