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Prior to North Carolina's second Constitutional Convention, which ratified the federal Constitution, President George Washington addressed the this letter to the Governor (Samuel Johnston) and the Council of the State of North Carolina. “June 19, 1789 [I am] gratified by the favourable sentiments which are evinced in your address to me, and impressed with an idea that the Citizens of your State are sincerely attached to the Interest, the Prosperity and the Glory of America| I most earnestly implore the Divine benediction and guidance in the councils, which are shortly to be taken by their Delegates on a subject of the most momentous consequence, I mean the political relation which is to subsist hereafter, between the State of North Carolina and the States now in Union under the new general Government.”  Delegates to North Carolina's first Constitutional Convention meeting in Hillsborough in July-August of 1788 had refused to ratify the United State Constitution without a Bill of Rights. Consequently, North Carolina remained outside the Union for more than a year. Therefore, when George Washington became first president of the United States, North Carolina had no voice in his selection. However, most students and scholars of this period agree that the state had anticipated for sometime becoming a part of the new nation. After the first ten amendments were added to the Constitution, a new convention was called in November of 1789 to reconsider the decision not to ratify. Subsequently, North Carolina to become the twelfth state to join the Union."},{"label":"Digital Characteristics","value":"4 pages"},{"label":"Format","value":["Letters (Correspondence)"]},{"label":"Rights","value":"All rights held by the State Archives of NC. Permission to publish must be obtained from the registrar in writing."},{"label":"Source Collections","value":["Vault Collection. 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