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It was in North Carolina that the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence foreshadowed the course taken in a few short months by the representatives of the thirteen colonies assembled in Philadelphia.
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Roosevelt references the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence as a significant precursor to the American Revolution.
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