Add to ORKGIn 1788, delegates assembled in North Carolina to decide whether to ratify the Constitution. A debate erupted between Federalists and Anti-federalists regarding each Article of the then-drafted Constitution. This Article analyzes the debate, and proposes that the key difference was the function of the role of the law
State constitutions written in 1776 were heavily indebted to the dominant Whig theories of politics....
This Article seeks to support that position with an argument in three parts. Part I describes the co...
In the original 1776 North Carolina State Constitution, the executive branch of government was solel...
In 1788, delegates assembled in North Carolina to decide whether to ratify the Constitution. A debat...
North Carolina’s first ratifying convention at Hillsborough left the state outside of the Union. The...
This Article explores the development of the political question doctrine in North Carolina jurisprud...
The thesis of the so-called economic interpretation of the Federal Constitution is the result of Cha...
North Carolina had never been a docile colony. She was rough-hewn, populated by ambitious men whose ...
The present article focuses on the ratification debate in North Carolina. That debate is instructive...
Tocqueville was the first to notice that political controversy in America tends to become legal cont...
In this Article, Professor H. Jefferson Powell discusses the United States Constitution and the hist...
This essay reconsiders the transformation of colonial constitutionalism to Constitutional Law. The t...
The Supreme Court of North Carolina is an anomaly among state courts in the antebellum years. In a p...
This research analyzes a Constitutional issue that arose in the First Federal Congress and was conne...
This paper examines three state constitutions (those of Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Kentucky.)...
State constitutions written in 1776 were heavily indebted to the dominant Whig theories of politics....
This Article seeks to support that position with an argument in three parts. Part I describes the co...
In the original 1776 North Carolina State Constitution, the executive branch of government was solel...
In 1788, delegates assembled in North Carolina to decide whether to ratify the Constitution. A debat...
North Carolina’s first ratifying convention at Hillsborough left the state outside of the Union. The...
This Article explores the development of the political question doctrine in North Carolina jurisprud...
The thesis of the so-called economic interpretation of the Federal Constitution is the result of Cha...
North Carolina had never been a docile colony. She was rough-hewn, populated by ambitious men whose ...
The present article focuses on the ratification debate in North Carolina. That debate is instructive...
Tocqueville was the first to notice that political controversy in America tends to become legal cont...
In this Article, Professor H. Jefferson Powell discusses the United States Constitution and the hist...
This essay reconsiders the transformation of colonial constitutionalism to Constitutional Law. The t...
The Supreme Court of North Carolina is an anomaly among state courts in the antebellum years. In a p...
This research analyzes a Constitutional issue that arose in the First Federal Congress and was conne...
This paper examines three state constitutions (those of Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Kentucky.)...
State constitutions written in 1776 were heavily indebted to the dominant Whig theories of politics....
This Article seeks to support that position with an argument in three parts. Part I describes the co...
In the original 1776 North Carolina State Constitution, the executive branch of government was solel...