Ballot Questions
1822
Question #1
State Constitutional Amendment
NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,
to change the whole NYS constitution - as proposed by the 1821 NY constitutional convention
as proposed by the most recent NYS Constitutional Convention
And the voters said: Yes!
How We Voted
YES |
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64.35% |
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74,732 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
35.65% |
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41,402 New Yorkers voted No |
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116,134 votes determined the outcome of this ballot question.
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Note: When voters approved of provisions, the new changes take effect on January 1st of the year after the question's appearance on the ballot
Preamble proposed for 1822
• Section : Preamble
We, the people of the state of New York, acknowledging with gratitude the grace and beneficence of God, in permitting us to make choice of our form of government, do establish this constitution.
Read moreI.1 proposed for 1822
• Section 1: Legislative power.
The legislative power of this state shall be vested in a senate and an assembly.
Read moreI.2 proposed for 1822
• Section 2: Senate and assembly, how constituted.
The senate shall consist of thirty-two members. The senators shall be chosen for four years, and shall be freeholders. The assembly shall consist of one hundred and twenty-eight members, who shall be annually elected.
Read moreI.3 proposed for 1822
• Section 3: Special powers of two houses.
A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business. Each house shall determine the rules of its own proceedings, and be the judge of the qualifications of its own members. Each house shall choose its own officers; and the senate shall choose a temporary president, when the lieutenant governor shall not attend as president, or shall act…
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• Section 4: Journal of proceedings; public sessions; adjournments.
Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and publish the same, except such parts as may require secrecy. The doors of each house shall be kept open, except when the public welfare shall require secrecy. Neither house shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than two days.
Read moreI.5 proposed for 1822
• Section 5: Senate districts.
The state shall be divided into eight districts, to be called senate districts, each of which shall choose four senators. The first district shall consist of the counties of Suffolk, Queens, Kings, Richmond, and New York. The second district shall consist of the counties of Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Rockland, Orange, Ulster, and Sullivan. The third district shall consist of the…
Read moreI.6 proposed for 1822
• Section 6: Census; reapportionment of senators.
An enumeration of the inhabitants of the state shall be taken, under the direction of the legislature, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, and at the end of every ten years thereafter; and the said districts shall be so altered by the legislature, at the first session after the return of every enumeration, that each senate district…
Read moreI.7 proposed for 1822
• Section 7: Apportionment of members of assembly.
The members of the assembly shall be chosen by counties, and shall be apportioned among the several counties of the state, as nearly as may be, according to the numbers of their respective inhabitants, excluding aliens, paupers, and persons of colour, not taxed. An apportionment of members of assembly shall be made by the legislature, at its first session after…
Read moreI.8 proposed for 1822
• Section 8: Bills may originate in either house.
Any bill may originate in either house of the legislature; and all bills passed by one house may be amended by the other.
Read moreI.9 proposed for 1822
• Section 9: Compensation of members.
The members of the legislature shall receive for their services a compensation, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the public treasury; but no increase of the compensation shall take effect during the year in which it shall have been made. And no law shall be passed increasing the compensation of the members of the legislature beyond the…
Read moreI.10 proposed for 1822
• Section 10: Members not to receive civil appointment.
No member of the legislature shall receive any civil appointment from the governor and senate, or from the legislature, during the term for which he shall have been elected.
Read moreI.11 proposed for 1822
• Section 11: Disqualification of members.
No person, being a member of Congress, or holding any judicial or military office under the United States, shall hold a seat in the legislature. And if any person shall, while a member of the legislature, be elected to Congress, or appointed to any office, civil or military, under the government of the United States, his acceptance thereof shall vacate…
Read moreI.12 proposed for 1822
• Section 12: Governor to approve bills.
Every bill which shall have passed the senate and assembly shall, before It become a law, be presented to the governor; if he approve, he shall sign it; but if not, he shall return it with his objections to that house in which it shall have originated; who shall enter the objections at large on their journal and proceed to…
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• Section 13: Removals by legislature.
All officers holding their offices during good behavior may be removed by joint resolution of the two houses of the legislature, if two thirds of all the members elected to the assembly, and a majority of all the members elected to the senate, concur therein.
Read moreI.14 proposed for 1822
• Section 14: Political year; meeting of legislature.
The political year shall begin on the first day of January: and the legislature shall, every year, assemble on the first Tuesday of January, unless a different day shall be appointed by law.
Read moreI.15 proposed for 1822
• Section 15: Elections, when held.
The next election for governor, lieutenant governor, senators, and members of assembly shall commence on the first Monday of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two: and all subsequent elections shall be held at such time, in the month of October or November, as the legislature shall, by law, provide.
Read moreI.16 proposed for 1822
• Section 16: Commencement of official term after first election.
The governor, lieutenant governor, senators, and members of assembly, first elected under this Constitution, shall enter on the duties of their respective offices on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three; and the governor, lieutenant governor, senators, and members of assembly, now in office, shall continue to hold the same until the first day of January,…
Read moreII.1 proposed for 1822
• Section 1: Qualifications of voters.
Every male citizen of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been an inhabitant of this state one year preceding any election, and for the last six months a resident of the town or county where he may offer his vote; and shall have, within the next year preceding the election, paid a tax to the state or county,…
Read moreII.2 proposed for 1822
• Section 2: Exclusion from right of suffrage.
Laws may be passed excluding from the right of suffrage persons who have been, or may be, convicted of infamous crimes.
Read moreII.3 proposed for 1822
• Section 3: Registration of voters.
Laws shall be made for ascertaining, by proper proofs, the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage, hereby established.
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