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NC IN COLONIAL TIMES CH 12

NC IN COLONIAL TIMES CH 12. COLONIAL GOVERNMENT. 1689: GOVERNOR APPOINTED BY KING: ROYAL COLONY GOVNOR APPOINTED MANY KEY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS GENERAL ASSEMBLY WAS ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF NC THREEE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT EXISTED IN COLONIAL TIMES GOVERNOR: GENERAL ASSEMBLY: COURTS:

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NC IN COLONIAL TIMES CH 12

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  1. NC IN COLONIAL TIMES CH 12

  2. COLONIAL GOVERNMENT • 1689: GOVERNOR APPOINTED BY KING: ROYAL COLONY • GOVNOR APPOINTED MANY KEY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS • GENERAL ASSEMBLY WAS ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF NC • THREEE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT EXISTED IN COLONIAL TIMES • GOVERNOR: • GENERAL ASSEMBLY: • COURTS: • BY 1776 NC HAD 35 COUNTIES UNDER ENGLISH LAW

  3. “FIRST IN FREEDOM” • REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT • ALWAYS STRUGGLE BETWEEN ROYAL GOVERNOR AND ELECTED GENERAL ASSEMBLY • GOVERNOR WOULD DISMISS ASSEMLBY • WOULD HAVE TO CALL BACK BECAUSE ASSEMBLY HAD POWER OF THE PURSE

  4. TOWARD INDEPENDENCE: • NOV 2 1769: GOVENOR DISMISSED ASSEMBLY: ABOUT TO VOTE TO BOYCOTT BRITISH GOODS • ASSEMBLY MET W/O CONSENT OF GOVERNOR: “FIRST IN FREEDOM” • AUG 25, 1774: 71 DELEGATES CREATED FIRST WILMINGTON PROVINCIAL CONGRESS PLEDGE SUPPORT TO CONTINENTAL CONGRESS • MAY 1775: “MECHLENBERG RESOLVES” GOVERNOR’S APPOINTED POSITION IN GOVM’T VACANT & VOTE TO REPLACE • APRIL 1776: 4TH PROVINICIAL CONGRESS: “HALIFAX RESOLVES” NC B/C THE FIRST COLONY TO CALL FOR TOTAL INDEPENDENCE

  5. CONSTITUTION AND DELCARATION OF RIGHTS • DEC 18TH 1776: VOTERS OF NC APPROVED THE FIRST CONSTITUTION OF NC THE DOCUMENT EMPHASIS WAS ON: • FREEDOM • SEPARATION OF POWERS • SAFETY OF THE CITIZENS • ACHIEVEMENT: PUBLIC SCHOOLS • EQUALITY • RIGHT TO RULE THROUGH VOTING: POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY

  6. CHANGES TO CONSTITUTION OF NC • 1ST: 1835: • VOTERS ELECT GOVERNOR • LIMITED VOTING RTS OF FREE AFRICAN AMERICANS • 2ND: 1868: • CIVIL WAR AMENDMENTS NEEDED TO CHANGE NC’S CONSTITUTION TO PROVIDE FOR 14TH AMENDMENT’S EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW • 3RD: 1970: • APPROVED RATIFIED BY VOTERS • MADE DOCUMENT EASIER TO READ • CHANGED SCHOOL YR: • HAS BEEN AMENDED: 72: VOTING AGE, 77: GOVERNOR TERMS, 96: LINE ITME VETO POWER TO GOVERNOR

  7. NC DECLARATION OF RIGHTS TODAY • YOU HAVE RTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN NC AS WELL AS FEDERAL • NC’S DECLARATIONS OF RIGHTS EXTENDS THE US’S BILL OF RIGHTS • EDUCATION: • NC CONTITUTION ARTICLE 1 SECT 15: RT TO EDUCATION • 1994: DISPUTE OVER ED MONEY IN NC • LEANDRO V STATE OF NC: LOW WEALTH SCHOOLS NEED MORE MONEY FROM ST THEN HIGH WEALTH TO BE EQUAL • NC SUPREME CT RT TO SOUND BASIC EDUCATION BUT RULED ST. DOES NOT REQUIRE EQUAL FUNDING JUST SAYS ADEQUATE EDUCATION

  8. OTHER IMPORTANT NC CASES • SWANN V CHARLOTTE MECH: END SEGREGATION BY BUSSING STUDENTS TO SCHOOLS • STATE V MANN: UPHELD INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY IN NC • THE CASE MANN BEAT AND KILLED SLAVE LYDIA • CHOWAN CO COURT CONVICTED • STATE SUPREME COURT OVERRULED

  9. RIGHTS TO CITIZENS • 14TH AMENDMENT EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAWNATIONALIZE THE BILL OF RTS: ST REQUIRED TO UPHOLD BILL OF RIGHTS • EXTENDING RIGHT TO VOTE • 1868 & 1870 US AMENDMENTS OPEN WAY FOR AA BUT WHEN RECONTRUCTION ENDED SO DID THEIR RIGHTS “JIM CROW” • 1920: WOMEN GAINED RT TO VOTE DID HAVE SUFFRAGE MOVMENT IN NC • WHO CAN VOTE? PAGE 363: • 18YRS OLD, CITIZEN OF US, LIVED IN PRECINCT FOR 30 DAYS PRIOR TO ELECTION, NO CONVICTION OF FELONY, BE REGISTERED TO VOTE

  10. CIVIL RIGHTS IN NC • MOVEMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE TO BE TREATED FAIRLY AND EQUALLY • LEGALIZATION OF SEGREGATION: ADOPTION OF JIM CROW LAWS AND SEGREGATION WAS UPHELD BY PLESSY V FERGUSON RULING • STRUGGLE FOR RIGHTS • NC AND THE BROWN RULING: AVOIDED UNTIL MADE TO COMPLY IN 1971 WHEN SUPREME COURT UPHELD SWANN RULING • SIT INS: GREENSBORO FOUR AT WOOLWORTH’S STORE COUNTER TO EAT WITH WHITE PEOPLE BEGAN PUSH FOR EQUALITY AND FIGHT FOR EQUALITY HERE IN 1960

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