Mecklenburg Resolves

The Mecklenburg Resolves, which are also known as the Charlottetown Charlottetown or Resolves, was an opinion which was adopted on 31 May 1775, Mecklenburg County in present-day North Carolina, from the Mecklenburg Security Committee. This committee was composed of two members of the militia of each district. In this proclamation all the laws that came from the British King or Parliament, were declared null and void. As the only legitimate government of the American colonies, the Continental Congress in Philadelphia was recognized. The Crown's representative should be suspended and the authority of the British crown should be overridden.

These decisions, which were created under the influence of the battles of Lexington and Concord and adopted a year before the Declaration of Independence, brought Captain James Jack the deputies of North Carolina at the Continental Congress. This took the Mecklenburg Resolves indeed received but has decided against it, submit it to the Continental Congress for ratification in full.

In the opinion of many citizens of North Carolina, a Declaration of Independence was adopted on 20 May 1775 in Charlotte, which is known as the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence and whose existence is disputed. Had she actually authentic, the Mecklenburg Declaration was the first American Declaration of Independence, however, the existence of such a declaration could never be proven. The original is said to have been destroyed in a fire in 1800. Many historians believe that the later surfaced version is simply a reformulation of the Mecklenburg Resolves, which was misunderstood as a declaration of independence. The early government of North Carolina, however, went out of the authenticity of the Mecklenburg Declaration and adopted this date in the seal and the flag of North Carolina.