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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the North Carolina Constitutional Commission Papers, #3991, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Archibald Craige of Keswick, Va., through James S. Brawley of Salisbury, N.C., June 1974.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Constitutional law--North Carolina.
• Craige, Burton, 1875-1945.
• North Carolina Constitutional Commission.
• North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• North Carolina. Supreme Court.

• Lindsay Carter Warren Papers (#3172).

In 1931 a commission of nine members was appointed to recommend revisions to the state constitution of North Carolina. Burton Craige (1875-1945), a lawyer of Winston-Salem, N.C., was one of commission members, along with Lindsay Carter Warren (born 1889) and John Johnston Parker (1885-1958). At the recommendation of the State Supreme Court, the proposed constitution of 1933 was never submitted to the voters.

The collection includes Burton Craige's correspondence regarding the report of the Constitutional Commission. Correspondents include W. P. Stacy, John J. Parker, Michael Shenck, George E. Butler, Clarence Poe, A. J. Maxwell, Lindsay Warren, and Charles B. Aycock. Also included are mimeographed proceedings, drafts, working papers, and pertinent published material.