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North Carolina Amendment 1 (often referred to as simply Amendment 1) is a partially overturned legislatively referred constitutional amendment in North Carolina that (until overruled in federal court) amended the Constitution of North Carolina to add ARTICLE XIV, Section 6, which prohibit the state from recognizing or performing same-sex ...
Packingham v. North Carolina, 582 U.S. 98 (2017), is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a North Carolina statute that prohibited registered sex offenders from using social media websites was unconstitutional because it violated the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which protects freedom of speech.
The First Amendment bars Congress from passing any law "respecting an establishment of religion," and longstanding precedent holds that it is binding on the states under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In 1972, North Carolina Attorney General Robert Morgan opined that the provision likely did not comply with the First ...
In 2013, North Carolina politicians proposed a bill that could have seen North Carolina establish an official religion for the state. [ 79 ] [ 80 ] A 2013 YouGov poll found that 34% of people favored establishing Christianity as the official state religion in their own state, 47% opposed it, and 19% were undecided.
The government encouraging them to remove false speech only violates the 1st Amendment if it can be proved that the government caused, and will cause in the future, speech to be blocked.
North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union, 433 U.S. 119 (1977), was a United States Supreme Court case where the court held that prison inmates do not have a right under the First Amendment to join labor unions.
The only ballot measure North Carolina voters saw statewide this year, called the citizens-only voting amendment, passed.. The constitutional amendment, which just needed a majority vote from ...
A line curves around the parking lot of the Herb C. Young Recreation Center in Cary, N.C., Thursday morning, Oct. 17, 2024, as people wait to cast their ballots on the first day of early voting in ...