When voters head to the polls in May to vote on amending the N.C. Constitution on the issue of defining marriage, they won’t actually see the text of the proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot.

That’s just one of the quirks of the state’s constitutional amendment process. Jeanette Doran of the N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law explained that quirk and others during a presentation today to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. In the video clip below, Doran contrasts the actual text of a constitutional amendment with the language that appears before voters at their polling places.

3:35 p.m. update: Click play below to watch the full 56:45 event.

You’ll find other John Locke Foundation video presentations here.