This Week on Dispatches: Scott Syfert on the Mecklenburg Declaration

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February 18, 2026
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On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Scott Syfert on what we can reliably know about North Carolina’s Mecklenburg Declaration even though the original document has been lost. Was this the first Declaration of Independence and did any of its language end up in the Declaration of Independence written and signed in Philadelphia?

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