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The Constitution of the State of North Carolina governs the structure and function of the state government of North Carolina, one of the United States; it is the highest legal document for the state and subjugates North Carolina law. All US state constitutions are subject to federal judicial review; any provision can be nullified if it, in the view of a majority of the Justices of the United States Supreme Court, as constituted from time to time, conflicts with the US Constitution or any federal law pursuant to the Constitution, even if the identical language was previously upheld as valid by the court.〔For example, in Plessy v. Ferguson, Berea College v. Kentucky, Gong Lum v. Rice, and subsequent cases, spanning a time period of approximately 60 years, the United States Supreme Court upheld the validity of constitutional and statutory provisions requiring separate schools and other public accommodations for white and black persons. In 1954, however, without any change in the text of the relevant part of the United States Constitution, the Court held, in Brown v. Board of Education, that such provisions were unlawful.〕 North Carolina has had three constitutions: * 1776: as the first constitution of the independent state. The Declaration of Rights was ratified the preceding day. * 1868: Framed in accordance with the Reconstruction Acts after North Carolina was readmitted into the Union. It was a major reorganization and modification of the original into fourteen articles. It also introduced townships which each county was required to create, the only southern state to do so. * 1971: Minor consolidation of the 1868 constitution and subsequent amendments. The first North Carolina Constitution was created in 1776 after the American Declaration of Independence. Since the first state constitution, there have been two major revisions and many amendments. The current form was ratified in 1971 and has 14 articles. ==History== Through its history, North Carolina has had three Constitutions: the Constitution of 1776, the Constitution of 1868, and the Constitution of 1971. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Constitution of North Carolina」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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