North Carolina - 12\18\1776

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A DECLARATION OF RIGHTS A Declaration of Rights, made by the Representatives of the Freeman of the State of North Carolina.

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15. That the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty; and therefore ought never to be restrained.

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Note: The original constitution had 46 clauses, which were not titled articles or sections. We have numbered them as sections of Article OOO. The amendments that follow in 1835 created Articles and Sections.

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15. That the senate and house of commons, jointly, at their first meeting after each annual election, shall, by ballot, elect a governor for one year, who shall not be eligible to that office longer than three years, in six successive years; that no person under thirty years of age, and who has not been a resident in this State above five years, and having, in the State, a freehold in lands and tenements, above the value of one thousand pounds, shall be eligible as a governor.