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Article: NORTH CAROLINA'S COPY OF BILL OF RIGHTS IS OURS FOR GOOD, SAYS ATTORNEY GENERAL COOPER

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March 24, 2008
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The North Carolina Attorney General issued the following news release:

An original copy of the U.S. Bill of Rights stolen by union soldiers in 1865 now officially belongs to the people of North Carolina and to no one else, Attorney General Roy Cooper said Monday.

"The Bill of Rights is more than words on a piece of paper. It's a powerful part of our history and a symbol of our liberty," said Cooper. "It belongs to the people and it belongs here in North Carolina, for good."

An order issued today by Wake County Superior Court Judge Henry W. Hight, Jr. ends all remaining claims to the document and declares that North Carolina owns its original copy of the Bill of Rights to the exclusion of ...

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