Provisions
V.7 of 1822 • Chancellor and supreme court judges to hold no other office.
APPROVED
The Text
Neither the chancellor nor justices of the supreme court nor any circuit judge shall hold any other office or public trust. All votes for any elective office, given by the legislature or the people, for the chancellor or a justice of the supreme court or circuit judge, during his continuance in his judicial office, shall be void.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1822
• In Article V:
• Has 57 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1822
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amends or builds on:
◦ 1777-XXVIII
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