AMENDMENTS Mffii TO THE ?
CONSTITUTION OF NORTH CAROLINA
As Framed by the Constitutional CoNnmission of!
1913 and Referred to His Excellency, the Govern
or, Together With Statutory Machinery for
Submitting the Same to the Qualified
Voters of the Whole State. v
* . i i . i i.l !
A Bill to Be Entitled an Act to
Amend the Constitution of tOie
State of North Carolina.
The General Assembly of North
Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the Constitu
tion of the State of North Caro
lina be and the same is hereby
amended in manner and form as
follows :
I. By striking out article one,
section six, the words "insur
rection or rebillion against the
I'nited States," and inserting in
lieu thereof the following words:
the War between the States.
11. By adding after article
one, section twenty-six, the fol
lowing :
Section 2t»a. The use of the
Holy Bible shall not be prohibited
in schools supported wholly or in
part from public taxes.
111. By adding at the end of
section one of article two the
following :
a. But the people take and
keep to themselves power to pro
pose laws to the General Assem
bly, and to enact or reject the
same at the polls on the referen
dum vote, as hereinafter pro
vided. They also take and keep
power at their own option to ap
prove or reject at the polls any
law, section, item, or part of any
law, passed by the General As
sembly, except as hereinafter
provided. The limitations ex
pressed in the Constitution upon
the power of the>eneral Assem
bly to enact laws t except as to
the method and procedure pre
scribed for the General Assem
bly) shall be deemed limitations
on the power of the people to
enact laws.
b. The aforesaid power taken
by the people to initiate laws is
designated at the initiative
c. 'When at any time, not less
than ten day prior to the com
mencement of any session of the
General Assembly, there shall
have f>een filed \svt!i the Secre
tary at' State a petition signed
by five per centum f the elec
tors it i 'I-I mm rifty c>untie>
of th : i ti t-inr.il.jrthese
oft ..leS'Mte, aia: verified
as r !• ■»•*; '•> IHW. PMPOMIRIG A
law, r fa lull 'e\» ..f which shall
have (•»--11 set forth in such |ie
tion, f>* 4 % ecretary State shall
transmit uie j-ame t-> i he General
Asser.W;,. and either as petition
ed f.ir or as ir may have been
amended in the General Assem
bly. If it shall be passed bv the
Genera! Assembly in an amended
form, or if it shall not be passed
within sixty days from the date
it is received by the General As
sembly. it shall be submitted by
the Secretary of Stats, or by
such other officer as may be
charged by law with such duty,
to the electors for the approval
or rejection at the next regular
or general State election which
shall occur more than five
months after such original pe
tition was transmitted by the
Secretary of State to the General
Assembly, if such submission,
shall be demanded by sup
plemental petition, signed and
vciified as the law provides, by;
not less than ten per centum 1
i 1 of the electors of not less than i
' fifty counties of the State, and, I
including these, of the whole;
1 ' State, and filed with the Secre-;
tarv of State within ninety days
after adjournment of General
Assemblv to which said original
petition was presented.
1 d. The proposed law, if sub
mitted to the people, shall be in
form demanded by such supple
mental petition, which form shall
Jbe either as first petitioned for
or as it may have been amended |
by either branch of the General j
Assembly. i
e. If a proposed law submitted
to the people as herein provided
is approved by a majority of the
' electors voting thereon, it shall be
the law, and shall go into effect
las herein provided, and shall be
in lieu of any amended form of
law which may have been passed
' by the General Assembly, and
such amended law, passed by the
General Assembly, shall not go
■ into effect until and unless the |
■ law proposed bv supplementary
> petition shall have been rejected
■ by the electors. All such initiative
■ petitions last above prescribed
i shall have printed across the top
thereof, "Law proposed by
initiative petition first to the I
General Assembly." Ballots shall
be so printed as to permit an
affirmative or negative vote upon
each measure submitted to thej
i electors.
f. Any proposed laws sub
) mitted totfoe electors as provided i
above if approved by a majority
of the electors voting thereon,
; shall be published by the Secre- j
> tary of State and shall take ef-;
feet witfcin thirty days after such i
election at which it was approv
ed.
g. If conflicting proposed laws
shall be approved at the same
election by a majority of votes
cast for and against the same,
the one receiving the highest
number of affirmative votes shall
prevail.
h. The second afonestated
power taken by the people is de
signated the referendum, and!
the signatures of ten per centum
of the electors of not less than
fifty counties of the State, and,
including these, of the whole
State, shall be required upon a;
petition to order the submission
to the electors of the State, for)
their approval or rejection ef any,
law, section of any law, or any
item in any law passed by the |
General Assembly. No law pass
ed by the General Assembly j
shall go into affect until ninety i
days after its ratification except j
as herein provided. When a
petition signed by ten ner centum
of the electors of at least fifty;
counties of the State, and, in-•
eluding these, of the whole State,
verified as herein provided, shall
have been filed with the Secre
tary of State within ninety days
after its ratification, petitioning
that such law, or item thereof
be submitted to the electors of
,the State for their approval or
rejection of such law. section, or
item, in the manner as is by
; law provided, at the next suc
-1 ceeding regular or general Stat
THE DAN&DRY REPORTER
election occurring more than
ninety days after the filing of
such petition, and if .such pe- 1
| tition is so filed, then no such
law, sections, or items shall go i
I into etfect and until and unless j
'approved by a majority of those!
j voting upon the question. If, j
j however, a refrendum petition !
is filed against any item
or section of such law, the re-;
I mainder thereof shall not there
j by be prevented or delayed from
going into etfect: Provided,
i however, that laws making pro
visions for tax levies, appro-:
priations for current expenses j
for the State Government and |
state institutions, and emergency |
laws necessary for the immediate
1 preservation of the public peace,
health or safety, shall go into
etfect immediately, and such
j laws shall not be subject to the
; referendum.
j 1. The powers of the initiative
,and referendum are hereby
j conferred on the people of each j
' municipality on all questions, in j
: the manner in which is now or I
which may hereafter be pre- j
Mribed by the act of the General
Assembly, subject to such |
constitutional limitations upon (
the people of the imposed upon j
the power of the general i
municipalities as are pr may be:
imposed upon the power of the |
I General Assembly to legislate, i
and not including, however, the ;
requirements as to form and!
procedure: Provided, that laws |
! prohibiting the sale and maim-,
, facture of spirituous, vinuous. j
malt or intoxicating liquors shall I
not be repealed or amended by j
the General Assembly by vote of j
the people, so as to allow such j
liquors to be manufactured or |
! sold in a manner now prohibited 1
!hy law. unless such change be 1
approved bv a majority of the j
electors of the State #i ho may
! vote thereon at a State election.
Supplementary or referendum,
(petitions may be presented in
! seperate parts, but each part •
! shall contain a full and correct !
copy of tk»e title, text of the law,,
section, or item sought to be
referred. Each signer of any
initiative or supplementary or,
referendum petition must be an i
elector «.f the State.
j. No law submitted to electors '
ty the initiative and supple- j
mentary petition, which shall!
have received ar. affirmative!
majority of the votes cast there
on, shdill be held to be invalid or
void on account of the
insufficiency or failure to comply
I
w.th the law, of the petition by |
which such submission of the!
■ same was procured; nor shall j
the rejection of any law sub-;
| mitted to the people by referen- j
dum petitions be held invalid for
such reasons.
! k. The style of every law sub
mitted to the people by initiative
and supplementary petition shall
be. "Be it enacted by the
i people of the State of North
Carolina."
1. The basis upon which the
i required number of petitions in
cases under the initiative and
referendum shall be determined
shall be the total number of
votes cast for candidates for
Governor at the last preceding
election. The provisions of this
amendment shall be self
executing except as herein other
wise provided.
m. It is the duty of the Gen
eral Assembly at its next regular
(Continued on page 3.)
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