Provisions
XII.1 proposed for 1916 • Provision for maintenance of free schools.
REJECTED
The Text
The legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the children of this state may be educated.
A Few Facts
• Has 26 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 XII: Education
• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1895-IX.1
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