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Article III, Section 11 of the North Carolina Constitution, approved by voters on November 3, 1970, required the legislature to reduce the more than 300 administrative departments, agencies, and offices to no more than 25 principal administrative departments by 1 July 1975.
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 ...
[1] Because "[t]the North Carolina Constitution expresses the will of the people of [the] State," it is "the supreme law of the land." [2] "If there is a conflict between" a state statute and the North Carolina Constitution, the constitution controls because it "is the superior rule of law in that situation."
North Carolina's current judicial system was created in the 1960s after significant consolidation and reform. [15] The judicial system derives its authority from Article IV of the North Carolina Constitution. [16] The state court system is unified into one General Court of Justice. [17]
If it’s essential to amend the constitution to ward off things that are already unconstitutional and have literally no chance of happening, I was thinking maybe we could repeat Article 1 ...
The Supreme Court of the State of North Carolina is the state of North Carolina's highest appellate court. Until the creation of the North Carolina Court of Appeals in the 1960s, it was the state's only appellate court. The Supreme Court consists of six associate justices and one chief justice, although the number of justices has varied.
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 ...
This largely partisan ballot measure asks voters to make a small wording change to the state constitution. Here's what it would actually change. There's a proposed amendment to the NC Constitution ...