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AI-ENDtiENTS TO THE 

 CONSTITUTION OF NORTH CiiROLINA 



1835 

 "ARTICIE IV. 



"Section I. 



"1. No Convention of the People shall be called by the 

 General Assembly^ unless by the concurrence of two-thirds of all 

 the members of each House of the General Assembly, 



"2. No part of the Constitution of this State shall be al- 

 tered, unless a Bill to alter the same shall have been read three 

 times in each House of the General Assembly, and agreed to by 

 three-fifths of the whole mjimber of members of each House res- 

 pectivelyj nor shall any alteration take place until the bill so 

 agreed to shall have been published six months previous to a new 

 election of members to the General Assembly, If, after such pub- 

 lication, the alteration proposed by the preceding General Assembly, 

 shall be agreed to in the first session thereafter, by tvjo- thirds 

 of the whole Representation in each House of the General Assembly, 

 after the same shall have been read three times on three several 

 days, in each House, then the said General Assembly shall prescribe 

 a mode by which the Amendment or Amendments may be submitted to the 

 qualified voters of the House of Commons throughout the State] and 

 if, upon comparing the votes given in the -tjhole State, it shall 

 appear that a majority of the voters have approved thereof, then, 

 and not othervirise, the same shall become a part of the Constitution,"' 



■^• Journal of the Convention, . . 1835, 100 (Raleigh J J, Gales 

 & Son, lb35). ~~~" ~ 



