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1. Long before college basketball rivalries, North Carolina was one of the original colonies to draft a constitution amid the Revolutionary War. This week we explore that constitution’s birth & subsequent Tar Heel constitutional history. #50Weeks50Constitutions
2. The 1st NC constitution was adopted in December 1776 by a provincial congress. This congress had the benefit of surveying other early state constitutions and actually received a letter from John Adams, a noted constitution expert, advising them how to proceed. 
3. Because the drafters believed “all political power is vested in and derived from the people only” they placed the Declaration of Rights prior to the provisions setting up the structure of the government. Other early state constitutions, but not all, were similar.
