Discussing a state constitution (NC) and comparing it to the U.S. Constitution

In pre-Revolutionary North Carolina county was the most important political and geographical unity. Colony relied on the county for the administration of local government. When the North Carolina Constitution was rewritten in 1868, the drafters, many of whom were familiar with the system of local government in other parts of the country have developed new and more democratic plan of organization of districts(Lindley, 1984).

Although the position of justice of the peace has been preserved, the old Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions was abolished. Its judicial functions were divided between the judges and the North Carolina Supreme Court. His administrative work was entrusted to the Board of County Commissioners, composed of five members elected by the voters at large district. County commissioners were made responsible for public buildings, schools, roads and bridges, and the financial affairs of the county, including taxation. Wide appointive powers of the court petition, and the fourth session were not transferred to the Board of County Commissioners. Instead, voters elected county sheriff, investigator, court clerk, register of cases, the surveyor, and treasurer. The sheriff continued to serve as tax collector.

Seven years after the Constitution of 1868 established county commissioners and township systems, political control shifted to the Conservatives. At the founding meeting in 1875, the North Carolina Constitution was amended to allow the General Assembly to modify the plan of the county government was established in 1868. County Board of Commissioners was not abolished, but the members were to be selected by the district magistrates, rather than people in general. Although the commissioners have kept their responsibilities, decisions on substantive issues can not be enacted without the consent of a majority of judges - all of whom were elected to the legislature(Lindley, 1984). The judges ...