Dr. Troy Kickler, N.C. History Project director, delivers a lecture titled “Defenders of Liberty: The Ratification Debates and North Carolina’s Effort to Guarantee an Important Addendum.” This is the second of four lectures in the John Locke Foundation/N.C. History Project event “A Citizens’ Constitutional Workshop: What the Founders and the State Ratification Conventions Can Teach Us Today,” scheduled Aug. 7, 2010, in Raleigh.
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