Ballot Questions
1846
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 1846 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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70.56% |
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221,528 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
29.44% |
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92,436 New Yorkers voted No |
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313,964 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
II.2 proposed for 1847
• Section 2: Exclusion from right of suffrage.
Laws may be passed, excluding from the right of suffrage all persons who have been or may be convicted of bribery, larceny, or of any infamous crime; and for depriving every person who shall make, or become directly or indirectly interested in, any bet or wager depending upon the result of any election, from the right to vote at such…
Read moreII.3 proposed for 1847
• Section 3: Right of suffrage not affected by certain occupations and conditions.
For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence by reason of his presence or absence, while employed in the service of the United States; nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this state, or of the United States, or of the high seas; nor while a student of…
Read moreII.4 proposed for 1847
• Section 4: Registration of voters.
Laws shall be made for ascertaining, by proper proofs, the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby established.
Read moreII.5 proposed for 1847
• Section 5: Elections to be by ballot.
All elections by the citizens shall be by ballot, except for such town officers as may by law be directed to be otherwise chosen.
Read moreIII.1 proposed for 1847
• Section 1: Legislative power.
The legislative power of this state shall be vested in a senate and assembly.
Read moreIII.2 proposed for 1847
• Section 2: Senate and assembly, how constituted.
The senate shall consist of thirty-two members, and the senators shall be chosen for two years. The assembly shall consist of one hundred and twenty-eight members, who shall be annually elected.
Read moreIII.3 proposed for 1847
• Section 3: Senate districts.
The state shall be divided into thirty-two districts, to be called senate districts, each of which shall choose one senator. The districts shall be numbered from one to thirty-two, inclusive. District number one (i) shall consist of the counties of Suffolk, Richmond, and Queens. District number two (2) shall consist of the county of Kings. District number three (3), number…
Read moreIII.4 proposed for 1847
• Section 4: Census; reapportionment of senators.
An enumeration of the inhabitants of the state shall be taken, under the direction of the legislature, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and at the end of every ten years thereafter; and the said districts shall be so altered by the legislature, at the first session after the return of every enumeration, that each senate district…
Read moreIII.5 proposed for 1847
• Section 5: Apportionment of assembly.
The members of assembly shall be apportioned among the several counties of this state, by the legislature, as nearly as may be, according to the number of their respective inhabitants, excluding aliens, and persons of color not taxed, and shall be chosen by single districts. The several boards of supervisors in such counties of this state as are now entitled…
Read moreIII.6 proposed for 1847
• Section 6: Compensation of members.
The members of the legislature shall receive for their services a sum not exceeding three dollars per day, from the commencement of the session, but such pay shall not exceed in the aggregate three hundred dollars per diem allowance, except in proceedings for impeachment. The limitation as to the aggregate compensation shall not take effect until the year one thousand…
Read moreIII.7 proposed for 1847
• Section 7: Members not to receive certain civil appointments.
No member of the legislature shall receive any civil appointment within this state, or to the Senate of the United States, from the governor, the governor and senate, or from the legislature, during the term for which he shall have been elected; and all such appointments, and all votes given for any such member, for any such office or appointment,…
Read moreIII.8 proposed for 1847
• Section 8: Certain Federal officers disqualified as members.
No person being a member of Congress, or holding any judicial or military office under the United States, shall hold a seat in the legislature; and if any person shall, after his election as a member of the legislature, be elected to Congress, or appointed to any office, civil or military, under the government of the United States, his acceptance…
Read moreIII.9 proposed for 1847
• Section 9: Time of elections.
The elections of senators and members of assembly, pursuant to the provisions of this Constitution, shall be held on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of November, unless otherwise directed by the legislature.
Read moreIII.10 proposed for 1847
• Section 10: Quorum; special powers of each house.
A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business. Each house shall determine the rules of its own proceedings and be the judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of its own members; shall choose its own officers; and the senate shall choose a temporary president when the lieutenant governor shall not attend as president, or shall…
Read moreIII.11 proposed for 1847
• Section 11: Journals; public sessions; adjournments.
Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings and publish the same, except such parts as may require secrecy. The doors of each house shall be kept open, except when the public welfare shall require secrecy. Neither house shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than two days.
Read moreIII.12 proposed for 1847
• Section 12: Privileges of members.
For any speech or debate in either house of the legislature the members shall not be questioned in any other place.
Read moreIII.13 proposed for 1847
• Section 13: Bills may originate in either house.
Any bill may originate in either house of the legislature, and all bills passed by one house may be amended by the other.
Read moreIII.14 proposed for 1847
• Section 14: Enacting clause.
The enacting clause of all bills shall be “The People of the state of New York, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows,” and no law shall be enacted except by bill.
Read moreIII.15 proposed for 1847
• Section 15: Manner of passing bills.
No bill shall be passed unless by the assent of a majority of all the members elected to each branch of the legislature, and the question upon the final passage shall be taken immediately upon its last reading, and the yeas and nays entered on the journal.
Read moreIII.16 proposed for 1847
• Section 16: Private and local bills limited to one subject
No private or local bill, which may be passed by the legislature, shall embrace more than one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title.
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