The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Ratification of the Constitution by the States: North Carolina (Volumes 30-31) are the latest volumes in the Society Press’s 34-plus volume Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution series, praised as the most important editorial project in the nation by constitutional historian Leonard Levy. They detail public and private ratification debates between North Carolina’s opponents and proponents of the Constitution. The series aims to preserve the state-by-state debates about the ratification of the United States Constitution. It is an unrivalled reference work on the US Constitution. Each volume is encyclopaedic, consisting of manuscripts and published documents compiled from thousands of sources, carefully transcribed, thoroughly annotated, comprehensively indexed and often accompanied by a variety of supplemental documents.