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North Carolina General Assembly, the Glossary

The North Carolina General Assembly is the bicameral legislature of the state government of North Carolina.^[1]

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1775 establishments in North Carolina
Legislatures of the Thirteen Colonies

Abraham Galloway

Abraham H. Galloway (February 8, 1837 – September 1, 1870) was an African American politician who served as a state Senator in North Carolina.

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Adjournment sine die

Adjournment sine die (from Latin "without a day") is the conclusion of a meeting by a deliberative assembly, such as a legislature or organizational board, without setting a day to reconvene.

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Albemarle County, North Carolina

Albemarle County, North Carolina was a county located in the Province of North Carolina.

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The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Bicameralism

Bicameralism is a type of legislature that is divided into two separate assemblies, chambers, or houses, known as a bicameral legislature. North Carolina General Assembly and Bicameralism are bicameral legislatures.

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Board of Trade

The Board of Trade is a British government body concerned with commerce and industry, currently within the Department for Business and Trade.

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Charles II of England

Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685.

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Citizen legislature

A citizen legislature is a legislative chamber made up primarily of citizens who have a full-time occupation besides being a legislator.

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.

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Committees of correspondence

The committees of correspondence were a collection of American political organizations that sought to coordinate opposition to British Parliament and, later, support for American independence during the American Revolution.

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Constitution of the Confederate States

The Constitution of the Confederate States was the supreme law of the Confederate States of America.

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Continental Congress

The Continental Congress was a series of legislative bodies, with some executive function, for the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain in North America, and the newly declared United States before, during, and after the American Revolutionary War.

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Cuffee Mayo

Cuffee Mayo, sometimes spelled Cuffie Mayo, (1803–1896) was a minister, laborer, and politician in North Carolina.

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Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction era

Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction era in the United States, especially in the Southern United States, was based on a series of laws, new constitutions, and practices in the South that were deliberately used to prevent black citizens from registering to vote and voting.

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Executive order

In the United States, an executive order is a directive by the president of the United States that manages operations of the federal government.

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Fifth North Carolina Provincial Congress

The Fifth North Carolina Provincial Congress was the last of five extra-legal unicameral bodies that met beginning in the summer of 1774.

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Free people of color

In the context of the history of slavery in the Americas, free people of color (French: gens de couleur libres; Spanish: gente de color libre) were primarily people of mixed African, European, and Native American descent who were not enslaved.

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Freehold (law)

A freehold, in common law jurisdictions such as England and Wales, Australia, Canada, Ireland, and twenty states in the United States, is the common mode of ownership of real property, or land, and all immovable structures attached to such land.

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George W. Price

George W. Price, Jr. (c. 1843 – October 22, 1901) was a laborer, sailor, and politician in North Carolina.

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Gertrude Dills McKee

Gertrude Dills McKee (June 8, 1885 – November 27, 1948) was an American civic leader and politician from North Carolina.

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Government of North Carolina

The government of North Carolina is divided into three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial.

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Henry Eppes

Henry Eppes (September 16, 1830 or 1831 – February 6, 1903) was a seven-term Republican senator in the North Carolina General Assembly between 1868 and 1900.Crow, Jeffrey J. and Escott, Paul D. and Wadelington, Flora J. Hatley. A History of African Americans in North Carolina. 2nd edition. Raleigh: North Carolina Office of Archives and History, 1997.

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Hillsborough, North Carolina

The town of Hillsborough is the county seat of Orange County, North Carolina, United States and is located along the Eno River.

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Impeachment

Impeachment is a process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official for misconduct.

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Intolerable Acts

The Intolerable Acts, sometimes referred to as the Insufferable Acts or Coercive Acts, were a series of five punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.

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Isham Sweat

Isham Sweat was a state legislator in North Carolina.

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Ivey Hutchings

Ivey Hutchings was an African-American politician and state legislator in North Carolina..

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John Adams Hyman

John Adams Hyman (July 23, 1840 – September 14, 1891) was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina from 1875 to 1877.

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John Harvey (North Carolina politician)

John Harvey (December 11, 1724May 3, 1775) was a legislative leader in the Province of North Carolina and subsequently a leader in the creation of the revolutionary movement in the province.

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John S. W. Eagles

John S. W. Eagles was a state legislator in North Carolina.

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John Sinclair Leary

John Sinclair Leary (August 17, 1845 – December 9, 1904) was an American lawyer, politician, federal official, and law school dean.

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Josiah Martin

Josiah Martin (23 April 1737 – 13 April 1786) was a British Army officer and colonial official who served as the ninth and last British governor of North Carolina from 1771 to 1776.

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Legislature

A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the legal authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country, nation or city.

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Lieutenant governor

A lieutenant governor, lieutenant-governor, or vice governor is a high officer of state, whose precise role and rank vary by jurisdiction.

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Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina

The lieutenant governor of North Carolina is the second-highest elected official in the U.S. state of North Carolina and is the only elected official to have powers in both the legislative and executive branches of state government.

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Lillian Exum Clement

Lillian Exum Clement (1894 – February 21, 1925), later known as Lillian Stafford, was an American politician who was the first woman elected to the North Carolina General Assembly and the first woman to serve in any state legislature in the Southern United States.

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List of North Carolina state legislatures

The North Carolina General Assembly of the U.S. state of North Carolina has convened many times since the state declared its independence from the British Crown and established a constitution in December 1776 during the Fifth North Carolina Provincial Congress.

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Literacy test

A literacy test assesses a person's literacy skills: their ability to read and write.

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Lord proprietor

A lord proprietor is a person granted a royal charter for the establishment and government of an English colony in the 17th century.

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Mark Robinson (American politician)

Mark Keith Robinson (born August 18, 1968) is an American politician serving as the 35th lieutenant governor of North Carolina since 2021.

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Nat Turner's Rebellion

Nat Turner's Rebellion, historically known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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North Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1835

The North Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1835 was a meeting of delegates elected by eligible voters in counties in the United States state of North Carolina to amend the Constitution of North Carolina written in 1776 by the Fifth North Carolina Provincial Congress.

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North Carolina Council of State

The North Carolina Council of State is the collective body of ten elective executive offices in the state government of North Carolina, all of which are established by the state constitution.

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North Carolina Democratic Party

The North Carolina Democratic Party (NCDP) is the North Carolina affiliate of the Democratic Party.

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North Carolina General Assembly of 1777

The North Carolina General Assembly of 1777 met in two sessions in New Bern, North Carolina, from April 7 to May 9, 1777, and from November 15 to December 24, 1777.

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North Carolina General Assembly Police

The North Carolina General Assembly Police is a security police agency responsible for law enforcement and security of the North Carolina General Assembly buildings in Wake County, North Carolina, United States.

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North Carolina House of Representatives

The North Carolina House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the North Carolina General Assembly.

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North Carolina Provincial Congress

The North Carolina Provincial Congresses were extra-legal unicameral legislative bodies formed in 1774 through 1776 by the people of the Province of North Carolina, independent of the British colonial government.

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North Carolina Republican Party

The North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) is the affiliate of the Republican Party in North Carolina.

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North Carolina Senate

The North Carolina Senate is the upper chamber of the North Carolina General Assembly, which along with the North Carolina House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprises the state legislature of North Carolina.

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North Carolina State Capitol

The North Carolina State Capitol is the former seat of the legislature of the U.S. state of North Carolina which housed all of the state's government until 1888.

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North Carolina State Legislative Building

The North Carolina State Legislative Building was opened in 1963 and is the current meeting place of the North Carolina General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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One man, one vote

"One person, one vote" or "one vote, one value" is a slogan used to advocate for the principle of equal representation in voting.

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Ordinance of Secession

An Ordinance of Secession was the name given to multiple resolutions drafted and ratified in 1860 and 1861, at or near the beginning of the Civil War, by which each seceding slave-holding Southern state or territory formally declared secession from the United States of America.

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Paramilitary

A paramilitary is a military that is not part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces.

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Parker David Robbins

Parker David Robbins (c. 1834November 1, 1917) was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War, among the first Black representatives to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 18681869, and inventor from Bertie County, North Carolina.

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Phil Berger (politician)

Philip Edward Berger (born August 8, 1952) is a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's thirtieth Senate district, which includes Caswell, Rockingham, Stokes, and Surry counties.

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Poll tax

A poll tax, also known as head tax or capitation, is a tax levied as a fixed sum on every liable individual (typically every adult), without reference to income or resources.

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Prepared Meals Tax in North Carolina

Prepared Meals Tax in North Carolina is a 1% tax that is imposed upon meals that are prepared at restaurants.

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President pro tempore of the North Carolina Senate

The president pro tempore of the North Carolina Senate (more commonly, "Pro-Tem") is the highest-ranking (internally elected) officer of one house of the North Carolina General Assembly.

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Privy Council (United Kingdom)

The Privy Council (formally His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council) is a formal body of advisers to the sovereign of the United Kingdom.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Province of Carolina

The Province of Carolina was a province of the Kingdom of England (1663–1707) and later the Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1712) that existed in North America and the Caribbean from 1663 until the Carolinas were partitioned into North and South in 1712.

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Public records

Public records are documents or pieces of information that are not considered confidential and generally pertain to the conduct of government.

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Raleigh, North Carolina

Raleigh is the capital city of the U.S. state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County.

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Reconstruction era

The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history following the American Civil War, dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of abolishing slavery and reintegrating the eleven former Confederate States of America into the United States.

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Red Shirts (United States)

The Red Shirts or Redshirts of the Southern United States were white supremacist paramilitary terrorist groups that were active in the late 19th century in the last years of, and after the end of, the Reconstruction era of the United States.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Reynolds v. Sims

Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533 (1964), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that the electoral districts of state legislative chambers must be roughly equal in population.

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Richard Caswell

Richard Caswell (August 3, 1729November 10, 1789) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the first and fifth governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1776 to 1780 and from 1785 to 1787.

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Royal charter

A royal charter is a formal grant issued by a monarch under royal prerogative as letters patent.

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Separation of powers

The separation of powers principle functionally differentiates several types of state power (usually law-making, adjudication, and execution) and requires these operations of government to be conceptually and institutionally distinguishable and articulated, thereby maintaining the integrity of each.

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Serjeant-at-arms

A serjeant-at-arms or sergeant-at-arms is an officer appointed by a deliberative body, usually a legislature, to keep order during its meetings.

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Southwest Territory

The Territory South of the River Ohio, more commonly known as the Southwest Territory, was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 26, 1790, until June 1, 1796, when it was admitted to the United States as the State of Tennessee.

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Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives

The speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives is the presiding officer of one of the houses of the North Carolina General Assembly.

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Speculation

In finance, speculation is the purchase of an asset (a commodity, goods, or real estate) with the hope that it will become more valuable shortly.

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State Library of North Carolina

The State Library of North Carolina is an institution which serves North Carolina libraries, state government employees, genealogists, and the citizens of North Carolina.

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Term limit

A term limit is a legal restriction on the number of terms a person may serve in a particular elected office.

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Thomas A. Sykes

Thomas A. Sykes (born) was an American politician and tax official.

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Tim Moore (North Carolina politician)

Timothy Keith Moore (born October 2, 1970)Gary D. Robertson,, Associated Press (January 2, 2015).

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Veto

A veto is a legal power to unilaterally stop an official action.

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.

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W. T. J. Hayes

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Washington District, North Carolina

The Washington District of North Carolina was in a remote area west of the Appalachian Mountains, officially existing for only a short period (November 1776 – November 1777), although it had been self-proclaimed and functioning as an independent governing entity since the spring of 1775.

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William Drummond (colonial governor)

William Drummond (born, died January 20, 1677) was a Scottish indentured servant in Virginia who became the first colonial governor of Albemarle Sound settlement in the Province of Carolina, but alienated Virginia governor William Berkeley, became a ringleader of Bacon's Rebellion and was executed after his capture.

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Wilson Cary Nicholas

Wilson Cary Nicholas (January 31, 1761October 10, 1820) was an American politician who served in the U.S. Senate from 1799 to 1804 and was the 19th Governor of Virginia from 1814 to 1816.

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References

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1775 establishments in North Carolina

Legislatures of the Thirteen Colonies

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