The Mecklenburg resolutions - 1775
Series: State constitutional conventions
Published: 1909
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 2787
Subjects: Constitutional history
Notes: In Thorpe, Francis Newton, comp. The federal and state constitutions, colonial charters, and other organic laws of the states, territories, and colonies now or heretofore forming the United States of America. Washington, 1909. v.5, p. 2786-2787.

A set of resolves establishing a form of government, which were adopted by a convention of delegates from Mecklenburg County meetin in Charlotte on May 31, 1775. They followed the controversial Mecklenburg declaration of independence, alleged to have been drawn up on May 20th. Cf. The Columbia encylcopedia. 1963.