Fifth North Carolina Provincial Congress

The Fifth North Carolina Provincial Congress was the last of five extra-legal unicameral bodies that met beginning in the summer of 1774.

These congresses created a government structure, issued bills of credit to pay for the movement, organized an army for defense, wrote a constitution and bill of rights that established the state of North Carolina, and elected their first acting governor in the fifth congress that met in 1776.

[3][4][5][6] This congress approved the first Constitution of North Carolina, along with a "Declaration of Rights" on December 18, 1776.

The concept of district representation was a hold over from the Province of North Carolina in colonial times.

Washington District, in the western end of the state and later became a county, elected four delegates to the congress.