The North Carolina State copy of the Bill of Rights made its debut Monday at the North Carolina Museum of History. The document will be on display for the month of September, then it will continue on it's tour to Charlotte in October, Asheville in November and Greensboro in early November and December. The document began it's state tour in Fayetteville NC, where 5800 people came to watch the unveiling, said State Archivist Dick Lankford. The Bill of Rights, on its Liberty of Freedom Tour, has made it's stop in Raleigh just in time for the kick off of Constitution Week. 

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Lisabeth C. "Libba" Evans, a secretary at the Department of Cultural Resources, took time before the unveiling to view the document, away from the crowds. Evans was a guest speaker for the symposium following the unveiling.