Ballot Questions
1894
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, except for certain provisions with separate ballot questions - as proposed by the 1894 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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55.64% |
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410,697 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
44.36% |
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327,402 New Yorkers voted No |
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738,099 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
III.20 proposed for 1895
Article III: The Legislature • Section 20: 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.
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Article III: The Legislature • Section 21: Use of public moneys.
No money shall ever be paid out of the treasury of this State, or any of its funds, or any of the funds under its management, except in pursuance of an appropriation by law; nor unless such payment be made within two years next after the passage of such appropriation act; and every such law making a new appropriation, or…
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Article III: The Legislature • Section 22: Same subject.
No provision or enactment shall be embraced in the annual appropriation or supply bill, unless it relates specifically to some particular appropriation in the bill; and any such provision or enactment shall be limited in its operation to such appropriation.
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Article III: The Legislature • Section 23: Sections seventeen and eighteen not to apply to certain bills.
Sections seventeen and eighteen of this article shall not apply to any bill, or the amendments to any bill, which shall be reported to the Legislature by commissioners who have been appointed pursuant to law to revise the statutes.
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Article III: The Legislature • Section 24: Bill imposing tax, manner of passing.
Every law which imposes, continues, or revives a tax shall distinctly State the tax and the object to which it is to be applied, and it shall not be sufficient to refer to any other law to fix such tax or object.
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Article III: The Legislature • Section 25: Same subject.
On the final passage, in either house of the Legislature, of any act which imposes, continues, or revives a tax, or creates a debt or charge, or makes, continues, or revives any appropriation of public or trust money or property, or releases, discharges, or commutes any claim or demand of the State, the question shall be taken by yeas and…
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Article III: The Legislature • Section 26: Local legislative powers conferred on boards of supervisors.
There shall be in the several counties, except in cities whose boundaries are the same as those of the county, a board of supervisors, to be composed of such members, and elected in such manner, and for such period, as is or may be provided by law. In any such city the duties and powers of a board of supervisors…
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Article III: The Legislature • Section 27: Local legislative powers.
The Legislature shall, by general laws, confer upon the boards of supervisors of the several counties of the State such further powers of local legislation and administration as the Legislature may, from time to time, deem expedient.
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Article III: The Legislature • Section 28: No extra compensation to be granted.
The Legislature shall not, nor shall the common council of any city, nor any board of supervisors, grant any extra compensation to any public officer, servant, agent, or contractor.
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Article III: The Legislature • Section 29: Occupation and employment of convicts.
The Legislature shall, by law, provide for the occupation and employment of prisoners sentenced to the several State prisons, penitentiaries, jails, and reformatories in the State; and on and after the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, no person in any such prison, penitentiary, jail, or reformatory shall be required or allowed to…
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Article IV: The Executive • Section 1: Executive power, how vested.
The executive power shall be vested in a Governor, who shall hold his office for two years; a Lieutenant Governor shall be chosen at the same time, and for the same term. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor elected next preceding the time when this section shall take effect shall hold office until and including the thirty-first day of December, one…
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Article IV: The Executive • Section 2: Requisite qualifications of Governor.
No person shall be eligible to the office of Governor or Lieutenant Governor, except a citizen of the United States, of the age of not less than thirty years, and who shall have been, five years next preceding his election, a resident of this State.
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Article IV: The Executive • Section 3: Time and manner of electing Governor and Lieutenant-Governor.
The Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall be elected at the times and places of choosing members of the assembly. The persons respectively having the highest number of votes for Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall be elected; but in case two or more shall have an equal and the highest number of votes for Governor, or for Lieutenant Governor, the two…
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Article IV: The Executive • Section 4: Duties and powers of Governor — His compensation.
The Governor shall be commander-in-chief of the military and naval forces of the State. He shall have power to convene the Legislature, or the senate only, on extraordinary occasions. At extraordinary sessions no subject shall be acted upon except such as the Governor may recommend for consideration. He shall communicate by message to the Legislature at every session the condition…
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Article IV: The Executive • Section 5: Pardoning power vested in the Governor.
The Governor shall have the power to grant reprieves, commutations, and pardons after conviction, for all offenses except treason and cases of impeachment, upon such conditions, and with such restrictions and limitations, as he may think proper, subject to such regulations as may be provided by law relative to the manner of applying for pardons. Upon conviction for treason, he…
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Article IV: The Executive • Section 6: Powers of Governor to devolve on Lieutenant-Governor.
In case of the impeachment of the Governor, or his removal from office, death, inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, resignation, or absence from the State, the powers and duties of the office shall devolve upon the Lieutenant Governor for the residue of the term, or until the disability shall cease. But when the Governor…
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Article IV: The Executive • Section 7: Requisite qualifications of Governor.
The Lieutenant Governor shall possess the same qualifications of eligibility for office as the Governor. He shall be president of the senate, but shall have only a casting vote therein. If, during a vacancy of the office of Governor, the Lieutenant Governor shall be impeached, displaced, resign, die, or become incapable of performing the duties of his office, or be…
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Article IV: The Executive • Section 8: Compensation of Lieutenant-Governor.
The Lieutenant Governor shall receive for his services an annual salary of five thousand dollars, and shall not receive or be entitled to any other compensation, fee, or perquisite, for any duty or service he may be required to perform by the Constitution or by law.
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Article IV: The Executive • Section 9: Bills to be presented to the Governor for signature — If returened by him with objections, how disposed of — Bills to be returned within ten days — After adjournment, bills must be approved in thirty days, else cannot become law — Governor may object to items of appropriation in any bill.
Every bill which shall have passed the senate and assembly shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the Governor; if he approve, he shall sign it; but if not, he shall return it, with his objections, to the house in which it shall have originated, which shall enter the objections at large on the journal, and proceed to…
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Article V: State Officers; Civil Service • Section 1: State officers, how elected.
The secretary of State, comptroller, treasurer, attorney general, and State engineer and surveyor shall be chosen at a general election, at the times and places of electing the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, and shall hold their offices for two years, except as provided in section two of this article. Each of the officers in this article named, excepting the speaker…
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