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The first North Carolina Constitution was created in 1776 after the American Declaration of Independence. Since the first state constitution, there have been two major revisions and many amendments. The current form was ratified in 1971 and has 14 articles. The three constitutions North Carolina has had are:
North Carolina is among several states that will consider a "citizens only" voting amendment in the November election, after the U.S. House of Representatives passed a federal version of the law ...
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 ...
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."
The guardrails are off in North Carolina. It’s crisis time. Contributing columnist Gene Nichol is a professor of law at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
New North Carolina laws go into effect Jan. 1, 2024, affecting elections, porn site age verification, fees for late audits, and more. We’ve got details.
Michael J. Gerhardt is the Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law in Chapel Hill. [1] He is also the director of the Center on Law and Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is an expert on constitutional law, separation of powers, and the legislative process. [2]
The constitution of North Carolina vests the state's legislative power in the General Assembly; [85] the General Assembly writes state laws/statutes. [63] [62] Legislation in North Carolina can either be in the form of general laws or special/local laws. General laws apply to the entire state, while local laws apply only to specific counties or ...