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.
We found out how every county voted on this ballot question, and mapped it!
Visit this page on a large screen and you'll find our map. Click on a county to see how its voters stood on this questionThis BQ Amended
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
VIII.4 proposed for 1847
• Section 4: Banking corporations.
The legislature shall have no power to pass any act granting any special charter for banking purposes; but corporations or associations may be formed for such purposes under general laws.
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• Section 5: Specie payments not to be suspended.
The legislature shall have no power to pass any law sanctioning in any manner, directly or indirectly, the suspension of specie payments by any person, association, or corporation issuing bank notes of any description.
Read moreVIII.6 proposed for 1847
• Section 6: Registry of bills and notes.
The legislature shall provide by law for the registry of all bills or notes issued or put in circulation as money, and shall require ample security for the redemption of the same in specie.
Read moreVIII.7 proposed for 1847
• Section 7: Liability of stockholders.
The stockholders in every corporation and joint-stock association for banking purposes, issuing bank notes or any kind of paper credits, to circulate as money, after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, shall be individually responsible, to the amount of their respective share or shares of stock in any such corporation or association, for all its…
Read moreVIII.8 proposed for 1847
• Section 8: Preference of billholders.
In case of the insolvency of any bank or banking association, the billholders thereof shall be entitled to preference in payment, over all other creditors of such bank or association.
Read moreVIII.9 proposed for 1847
• Section 9: Incorporation of cities and villages.
It shall be the duty of the legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments, and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations.
Read moreIX.1 proposed for 1847
• Section 1: Education funds preserved; how applied.
The capital of the common-school fund, the capital of the literature fund, and the capital of the United States deposit fund shall be respectively preserved inviolate. The revenues of the said common-school fund shall be applied to the support of common schools; the revenues of the said literature fund shall be applied to the support of academies; and the sum…
Read moreX.1 proposed for 1847
• Section 1: Election and removal of certain county officers.
Sheriffs, clerks of counties, including the register and clerk of the city and county of New York, coroners, and district attorneys shall be chosen by the electors of the respective counties once in every three years, and as often as vacancies shall happen. Sheriffs shall hold no other office, and be ineligible for the next three years after the termination…
Read moreX.2 proposed for 1847
• Section 2: Local officers, how chosen.
All county officers whose election or appointment is not provided for by this Constitution shall be elected by the electors of the respective counties, or appointed by the boards of supervisors or other county authorities, as the legislature shall direct. All city, town, and village officers whose election or appointment is not provided for by this Constitution shall be elected…
Read moreX.3 proposed for 1847
• Section 3: Duration of certain offices, how fixed.
When the duration of any office is not provided by this Constitution, it may be declared by law, and if not so declared, such office shall be held during the pleasure of the authority making the appointment.
Read moreX.4 proposed for 1847
• Section 4: Legislature to prescribe time of elections.
The time of electing all officers named in this article shall be prescribed by law.
Read moreX.5 proposed for 1847
• Section 5: Vacancies.
The legislature shall provide for filling vacancies in office, and, in case of elective officers, no person appointed to fill a vacancy shall hold his office by virtue of such appointment longer than the commencement of the political year next succeeding the first annual election after the happening of the vacancy.
Read moreX.6 proposed for 1847
• Section 6: Political year and legislative term; opening of legislature.
The political year and legislative term shall begin on the first day of January, and the legislature shall, every year, assemble on the first Tuesday in January, unless a different day shall be appointed by law.
Read moreX.7 proposed for 1847
• Section 7: Removal of officers.
Provision shall be made by law for the removal for misconduct or malversation in office, of all officers (except judicial) whose powers and duties are not local or legislative, and who shall be elected at general elections, and also for supplying vacancies created by such removal.
Read moreX.8 proposed for 1847
• Section 8: Legislature may determine vacancies.
The legislature may declare the cases in which any office shall be deemed vacant, when no provision is made for that purpose in this Constitution.
Read moreXI.1 proposed for 1847
• Section 1: Militia.
The militia of this state shall, at all times hereafter, be armed and disciplined and in readiness for service; but all such inhabitants of this state, of any religious denomination whatever, as, from scruples of conscience, may be adverse to bearing arms, shall be excused therefrom upon such conditions as shall be prescribed by law.
Read moreXI.2 proposed for 1847
• Section 2: Militia officers, how chosen.
Militia officers shall be chosen or appointed as follows: Captains, subalterns, and noncommissioned officers shall be chosen by the written votes of the members of their respective companies. Field officers of regiments and separate battalions by the written votes of the commissioned officers of the respective regiments and separate battalions; brigadier-generals and brigade inspectors by the field officers of their…
Read moreXI.3 proposed for 1847
• Section 3: Governor to appoint certain militia officers.
The governor shall nominate, and, with the consent of the senate, appoint, all major-generals and the commissary-general. The adjutant-general and other chiefs of staff departments, and the aide-de-camp of the commander-in-chief shall be appointed by the governor, and their commissions shall expire with the time for which the governor shall have been elected. The commissary general shall hold his office…
Read moreXI.4 proposed for 1847
• Section 4: Election of militia officers.
The legislature shall, by law, direct the time and manner of electing militia officers, and of certifying their elections to the governor.
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• Section 5: Commissioned officers; removal.
The commissioned officers of the militia shall be commissioned by the governor; and no commissioned officer shall be removed from office unless by the senate, on the recommendation of the governor, stating the grounds on which such removal is recommended, or by the decision of a court-martial, pursuant to law. The present officers of the militia shall hold their commissions,…
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