Provisions
III.8 of 1847 • Certain Federal officers disqualified as members.
APPROVED
The Text
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, after his election as 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 his seat.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1847
• In Article III:
• Has 65 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1846
• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision
• Amends or builds on:
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