30 ! answer ! read the excerpt from north carolina’s 1861 ordinance to dissolve the union. we, the people of the state of north carolina . . declare and ordain, that the union now subsisting between the state of north carolina and the other states under the title of the united states of america, is hereby dissolved, and that the state of north carolina is in the full possession and exercise of all those rights of sovereignty which belong and appertain to a free and independent state. –ordinance to dissolve the union, 1861 what declaration did the state of north carolina make with this document?