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| | The Constitution of North Carolina |
 | | Following the precedent established in amending the United States Constitution, the 1835 amendments were appended to the Constitution of 1776, not incorporated in it as is the modern practice. |
 | | When the Conservative Party gained control of the General Assembly in 1870, a proposal to call a convention of the people to revise the Constitution was submitted by the General Assembly to the voters and rejected in 1871 by a vote of 95,252 to 86,007. |
 | | An amendment to shift the elections for state legislative, executive, and judicial officers and for county officers from even-numbered to odd-numbered years (beginning in 1989 for legislators and 1993 for Governors and other state executives) was submitted by the General Assembly of 1985 to the voters, who rejected it on May 6, 1986. |
| statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us /nc/stgovt/preconst.htm (6110 words) |
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