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Provisions

I.9 proposed for 1916 • Right to assemble and petition; divorces; lotteries prohibited.

REJECTED

The Text

No law shall be passed abridging the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government, or any department thereof; nor shall any divorce be granted otherwise than by due judicial proceedings; nor shall any lottery or the sale of lottery tickets, pool-selling, book-making, or any other kind of gambling hereafter be authorized or allowed within this state; and the legislature shall pass appropriate laws to prevent offenses against any of the provisions of this section.


A Few Facts

• Has 79 words

• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention

• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 4 of 1915

If New Yorkers voted to approve this provision, it would have:

• Joined the Constitution in 1916

• Been in Article I: Civil rights

• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision

• Amended or built on:
1895-I.9


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