Provisions
Signature proposed for 1916 • Signature
REJECTED
The Text
Done in convention at the Capitol in the city of Albany, the tenth day of September, in the year one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fortieth.
In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names.
ELIHU ROOT,
President and Delegate at Large.
WILLIAM D. CUNNINGHAM,
Secretary.
A Few Facts
• Has 56 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 Signature:
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1895-Signature
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