North Carolina
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The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
American colony/state cited as lacking any general slave-defining statute before the revolution.
In North Carolina no general law at all was passed, prior to the revolution, declaring who might be slaves—(See Iredell’s statutes, revised by Martin.
This constitution also repeatedly uses the word “freeman;
The constitution of North Carolina, (adopted in 1776,) used the word in a similar sense, as follows:
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
One of the original states whose constitution is quoted to show that the term 'state' consistently denotes a sovereign, self-governing political society.
All commissions shall run in the name of the state of North Carolina.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
A U.S. state whose statutory juror qualifications or selection method are surveyed as part of the author's state-by-state argument that American juries are generally illegal.
In New Jersey, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi, the jurors are required to be freeholders.
In North Carolina, “the courts of pleas and quarter sessions * * shall select the names of such persons only as are freeholders, and as are well qualified to act as jurors, &c.