Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
August 13, 2009
The North Carolina Constitution and the Power of Taxation
The first event in this series was held at the historic Edenton Courthouse on April 23, 2009.
On October 25, 1774, in Edenton, N.C, a tax revolt known as the Edenton Tea Party marked the first organized political activity by women in what became the United States. In 1776, James Iredell, an Edenton resident and later a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, penned arguments denouncing British encroachment on individual liberty. What better place is there than the Historic Edenton Courthouse to remember our constitutional roots?
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The North Carolina Constitution and Property Rights
The second event in this series was held in the old House Chamber of the State Capitol in Raleigh on June 8, 2009.
The John Locke Foundation's N.C. History Project and the N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law co-host a State of Our Constitution Series forum on property rights. WRAL TV anchor David Crabtree moderates a June 8, 2009, discussion in the old House chamber of the State Capitol in Raleigh. The expert panelists are Wake Forest University political scientist John Dinan, former N.C. Court of Appeals Judge John M. Tyson, N.C. Property Rights Coalition founder Kieran Shanahan, and attorney Emmett Boney Haywood.
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