Mischief and mismatches at the top
Mischief and mismatches at the top Published 8:20 a.m. today My blog/newspaper column this week about Governor Roy Cooper and Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson raised a question: Why are our two top officials, unlike the President and Vice President, elected separately? It’s the unintended consequence of three constitutional amendments – one after the Civil War and two that came a century later, in the 1970s. Before the Civil War, North Carolina didn’t have a lieutenant governor. Somehow we got by. The office was created by the state Constitutional Convention of 1868. North Carolina, li...
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