# Talk:North Carolina Council of State

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Added referencing and cleaned up historical context, added infobox.  Historically this is a Mid level importance page.
User:G_Moore Talk 21:38, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

Early Council of State history -Indy beetle (talk) 02:06, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

Government research report, 1986 -Indy beetle (talk) 05:38, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

This review is transcluded from Talk:North Carolina Council of State/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Reviewer: NSNW (talk · contribs) 04:05, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
This one will start soon as well. NSNW (talk) 04:05, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
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### Prose
#### Lead
"The Council of State includes the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, State Auditor, Treasurer, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Attorney General, Commissioner of Agriculture, Commissioner of Labor and Commissioner of Insurance."; continue the Oxford comma with one more after 'Commissioner of Labor'.
Done.
"Under North Carolina's first constitution as a state of the United States the Council of State comprised seven persons"; add a comma after 'United States'.
Done.


#### History
"The president, in their legislative capacities, also signed all laws passed by the legislature"; improper use of a plural tense, that being 'capacities', which in this context should be 'capacity'.
Done.
"A new constitution was adopted in 1868, and provided for Council of State to comprise six popularly-elected executive officials"; this doesn't sound right, rewrite 'and provided for Council of State to comprise six' as 'and provided that the Council of State should comprise of six'.
Done.
"Council of State could disapprove of and block decisions of the governor"; article misusage, change it to 'block the decisions of the governor'.
Done.
"Janice H. Faulkner was the first woman to serve on council"; another article misusage, should be 'the council'.
Done.


#### Structure
"All serve as the chief executive of their own departments."; 'own' is redundant, remove it.
Changed to "respective".
"They are elected to four year terms"; hyphenate 'four year'.
Done.
"Contested elections for any of these offices are resolved by joint vote of the General Assembly"; missing an 'a' after 'resolved by'.
Done.
"The council retains a staff which records the minutes of each meeting"; add a comma after 'staff'.
Done.
That's all I've got. Another nice job. NSNW (talk) 22:36, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

@NSNW: I've responded to your comments. -Indy beetle (talk) 01:39, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
Good. Passing NSNW (talk) 17:56, 31 January 2023 (UTC)