Provisions
IX.3 proposed for 1916 • Debts to repel invasion.
REJECTED
The Text
In addition to the above limited power to contract debts, the state may contract debts to repel invasion, suppress insurrection, or defend the state in war; but the money arising from the contracting of such debts shall be applied to the purpose for which it was raised, or to repay such debts, and to no other purpose whatever.
A Few Facts
• Has 58 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 IX: State debts
• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1895-VII.3
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