Provisions
I.1 of 1895 • No person to be disfranchised.
APPROVED
The Text
No member of this State shall be disfranchised, or deprived of any of the rights or privileges secured to any citizen thereof, unless by the law of the land, or the judgment of his peers.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1895
• In Article I: Bill Of Rights
• Has 35 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1894
• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision
• Amends or builds on:
◦ 1847-I.1
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