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Article: Charlotte Town Resolves
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CHARLOTTE TOWN RESOLVES
CHARLOTTE TOWN RESOLVES.
On 31 May 1775, the Mecklenburg County Committee of Safety, meeting at Charlotte, North Carolina, drew up a set of twenty resolves, declaring in the preamble "that all Laws and Commissions confirmed by, or derived from the authority of the King and Parliament, are annulled and vacated, and the former civil Constitution of these Colinies [sic] for the present wholly suspended." The second resolve stated that the provincial congress of each colony under the direction of the Continental Congress was "invested with all legislative and executive Powers within their respective Provinces; and that no other Legislative or Executive does or can ...