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17310
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When the Supreme Court of North Carolina ruled in 1944, in the case of State v. Emery, that ten men and two women did not constitute a jury of \"good and lawful men\" within the meaning of Article I, section 13 of the Constitution, it started something. It started the women of the State on a campaign to strike out the Constitution every remaining vestige of discrimination against their sex.
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Popular Government (NoCar JK 4101 P6), Vol. 13 Issue 3, July 1947, p1-2, 4
Record #:
17690
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Resident voted on two state constitutional amendments on January 14, 1964. The first concerning legislative representation failed but the second dealt with married women's right to property and passed. The amendment gives a married woman the right to convey her property without the consent of her husband.
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