Ballot Questions
1915
Question #4
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 1915 NY constitutional convention
as proposed by the most recent NYS Constitutional Convention
And the voters said: No!
How We Voted
YES |
30.55% |
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400,423 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
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69.45% |
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910,462 New Yorkers voted No |
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1,310,885 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
XVI.3 proposed for 1916
Article XVI: Official corruption • Section 3: Offer of bribery a felony.
Any person who shall offer or promise a bribe to an officer, if it shall be received, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and liable to punishment, except as herein provided. No person offering a bribe shall, upon any prosecution of the officer for receiving such bribe, be privileged from testifying in relation thereto, and he shall not be…
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Article XVI: Official corruption • Section 4: Witness.
Any person charged with receiving a bribe, or with offering or promising a bribe, shall be permitted to testify in his own behalf in any civil or criminal prosecution therefor.
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Article XVI: Official corruption • Section 5: Free passes of transportation, a misdemeanor.
No public officer, or person elected or appointed to a public office, under the laws of this state, shall directly or indirectly ask, demand, accept, receive or consent to receive for his own use or benefit, or for the use or benefit of another, any free pass, free transportation, franking privilege or discrimination in passenger, telegraph, or telephone rates, from…
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Article XVI: Official corruption • Section 6: Removal of district attorney.
Any district attorney who shall fail faithfully to prosecute a person charged with the violation in his county of any provision of this article, which may come to his knowledge, shall be removed from office by the governor, after due notice and an opportunity of being heard in his defense. The expenses which shall be incurred by any county, in…
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Article XVII: Constitutional amendments • Section 1: Amendments.
Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed in the senate and assembly; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two houses, after consideration in joint session as hereinafter provided and after the same shall have been printed and upon the desks of the members in…
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Article XVII: Constitutional amendments • Section 2: Constitutional Convention.
The question “Shall there be a convention to revise and amend the constitution?” shall be submitted to the electors of the state at each general election next ensuing the lapse of twenty successive years since the last previous submission thereof, and shall be submitted at such other general elections as the legislature may by law provide. In case a majority…
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Article XVII: Time of taking effect • Section 3: Right to contest validity of election of proposed amendments in supreme court.
The validity of an election upon any amendment or proposed constitution or the question “Shall there be a convention to revise and amend the constitution?” or upon any other question submitted to the electors of the state under this constitution, and the determination whether the proposed amendment, constitution or question has received the number of votes requisite for the adoption…
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Article XVII: Time of taking effect • Section 4: Constitutional amendments to supersede amendments by Legislature.
Any amendment proposed by a constitutional convention relating to the same subject as an amendment proposed by the legislature, coincidently submitted to the people for approval, shall, if approved, be deemed to supersede the amendment so proposed by the legislature; provided, however, that, if at the general election held in the year one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, a majority…
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Article XVIII: Time of taking effect • Section 1: When Constitution goes into operation.
This constitution shall be in force from and including the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, except as herein otherwise provided.
Read moreSignature proposed for 1916
Article Signature: • Section : Signature
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.
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