A rare copy of the U.S. Constitution, printed 237 years ago, is set to be auctioned Thursday in North Carolina. The document, which was sent to the states for ratification after the Constitutional ...

Also sold for $85,000 was a 1788 Journal of the Convention of North Carolina at Hillsborough where representatives spent two ...

The Ratification of the Conventions of ... of proceedings under the new Constitution on March 4, 1789. North Carolina rejected the Constitution and did not reverse itself until November 1789.

In the North Carolina ratifying convention ... citizens in a number of Northern states and who had voted to ratify the new constitution. It is significant that the words slave and slavery are ...