Sampson County may soon be getting its own life-size replicas of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, thanks to Ron Lewis of Foundation Forward, a nonprofit organization that brings America’s most important documents to communities across the country.

Lewis shared a video presentation with county commissioners at their Nov. 3 meeting, illustrating what Foundation Forward calls the Charters of Freedom. The charters are encased in brick with glass tops, and are replicas of the nation’s founding documents.

“From the beginning, this has been an education project,” the video narrator stated. “Our hope is that our future leaders will come from communities where they have their own Charters of Freedom, that your children are no longer just talking about the

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