Ballot Questions
1822
Question #1
State Constitutional Amendment
NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,
to change the whole NYS constitution - as proposed by the 1821 NY constitutional convention
as proposed by the most recent NYS Constitutional Convention
And the voters said: Yes!
How We Voted
YES |
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64.35% |
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74,732 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
35.65% |
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41,402 New Yorkers voted No |
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116,134 votes determined the outcome of this ballot question.
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Note: When voters approved of provisions, the new changes take effect on January 1st of the year after the question's appearance on the ballot
VII.9 proposed for 1822
• Section 9: Two-thirds bills.
The assent of two thirds of the members elected to each branch of the legislature shall be requisite to every bill appropriating the public moneys or property for local or private purposes, or creating, continuing, altering, or renewing, any body politic or corporate.
Read moreVII.10 proposed for 1822
• Section 10: Common school funds; canals; salt springs.
The proceeds of all lands belonging to this state, except such parts thereof as may be reserved or appropriated to public use, or ceded to the United States, which shall hereafter be sold or disposed of, together with the fund denominated the common school fund, shall be and remain a perpetual fund; the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated…
Read moreVII.11 proposed for 1822
• Section 11: Lotteries prohibited.
No lottery shall hereafter be authorized in this state; and the legislature shall pass laws to prevent the sale of all lottery tickets within this state, except in lotteries already provided for by law.
Read moreVII.12 proposed for 1822
• Section 12: Indian lands.
No purchase or contract for the sale of lands in this state, made since the fourteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, or which may hereafter be made, of or with the Indians in this state, shall be valid, unless made under the authority, and with the consent, of the legislature.
Read moreVII.13 proposed for 1822
• Section 13: Common law continued.
Such parts of the common law and of the acts of the legislature of the colony of New York as together did form the law of the said colony on the nineteenth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, and the resolutions of the congress of the said colony, and of the convention of the state of New…
Read moreVII.14 proposed for 1822
• Section 14: Royal grants and charters preserved.
All grants of land within this state, made by the King of Great Britain, or persons acting under his authority, after the fourteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, shall be null and void; but nothing contained in this Constitution shall affect any grants of land within this state, made by the authority of the said King…
Read moreVIII.1 proposed for 1822
• Section 1: Constitution, how amended.
Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be proposed in the senate or assembly, and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their journals, with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and referred to the legislature then…
Read moreIX.1 proposed for 1822
• Section 1: Constitution, when to take effect.
This Constitution shall be in force from the last day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two. But all those parts of the same which relate to the right of suffrage, the division of the state into senate districts, the number of members of the assembly to be elected, in pursuance of this Constitution, the apportionment…
Read moreIX.2 proposed for 1822
• Section 2: Existing election laws applicable to first election.
The existing laws relative to the manner of notifying, holding, and conducting elections, making returns, and canvassing votes, shall be in force, and observed in respect to the elections hereby directed to commence on the first Monday of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, so far as the same are applicable. And the present legislature shall…
Read moreSignature proposed for 1822
• Section : Signature
Done in convention, at the Capitol in the city of Albany, the tenth day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, and of the independence of the United States of America, the forty-sixth. In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names. DANIEL D. TOMPKINS, President, and Delegate from the county of Richmond, JOHN F. BACON…
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