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Why Experience Still Matters in a Citizen Legislature
North Carolina was built on a simple but enduring belief: that public service is a responsibility taken up by those who have already proven themselves in the world beyond politics. Ours has always been a citizen legislature, designed not for the career politician but for the public servant, neighbor, the worker, the teacher, the business owner — men and women who enter public life carrying the lessons of a life already lived. That structure wasn’t an accident of history. It was a deliberate safeguard to…
