Independance

__**Mecklonburg and Halifax Resolves**__ The Meckonburg resolves stated that the kings commisions were null and void. Local leaders were told to elect new leaders of there own choice and this to them meant being free and independant of British authority. Later Mecklonburg residents couted up all there years of liberty from 1774 amd what came to be called the Meckenburg Declartion of Independence. The date it was said to have been signed was May 20, 1775. The Halifax Resolves was a meaning of peace to the Carolinians so they did as what Mecklonburg did and made there Independence and on April 12, 1776 the Provincial Congress passed the Halifax Resolves, which put the feeling of liberty and freedom that Carolinians had been discussing. Later in July 1776 the Declaration of Independence was signed.

__**Declaration of Independence**__ The Declaration of Independence was made so that Carolinians can live the way they want to live and with there own rules to live by. With the encourgment of the Continental Congress each of the thirteen new states wrote a state Constitution. The delegates wrote the first state constitution at a convention in Halifax in November and December 1776.