Posted on 10/25/2002 7:20:14 AM PDT by Overtaxed
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:55:46 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
RALEIGH,N.C. -- North Carolina voters will find a little publicized, obscure constitutional question on their ballots when they go to the polls November 5.
The measure deals with a technical correction in how the Legislature transfers property to the state Nature and Historic Preserve. If approved by voters, lawmakers would need just one legislative step to accept land into the preserve.
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Oh, that little technicality known as the U.S. Constitution??? We can get around that. That's what "law-makers" are for.
"A republic, if you can keep it."--Benjamin Franklin
Sounds like it. They're making it easier and easier to add lands to the state.
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