Ballot Questions
1938
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 1938 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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53.88% |
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1,521,036 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
46.12% |
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1,301,797 New Yorkers voted No |
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2,822,833 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.3 proposed for 1939
Article II: Suffrage • Section 3: Persons excluded from the right of suffrage.
No person who shall receive, accept, or offer to receive, or pay, offer or promise to pay, contribute, offer or promise to contribute to another, to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing as a compensation or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at an election, or who shall make any promise to influence the…
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Article II: Suffrage • Section 4: Certain occupations and conditions not to affect residence.
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…
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Article II: Suffrage • Section 5: Registration and election laws to be passed.
Laws shall be made for ascertaining, by proper proofs, the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby established, and for the registration of voters; which registration shall be completed at least ten days before each election. Such registration shall not be required for town and village elections except by express provision of law. In cities and…
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Article II: Suffrage • Section 6: Permanent registration.
The legislature may provide by law for a system or systems of registration whereby upon personal application a voter may be registered and his registration continued so long as he shall remain qualified to vote from the same address, or for such shorter period as the legislature may prescribe within the jurisdiction of the board with which such voter is…
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Article II: Suffrage • Section 7: Manner of voting; identification of voters.
All elections by the citizens, except for such town officers as may by law be directed to be otherwise chosen, shall be by ballot, or by such other method as may be prescribed by law, provided that secrecy in voting be preserved. The legislature shall provide for identification of voters through their signatures in all cases where personal registration is…
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Article II: Suffrage • Section 8: Bi-partisan registration and election boards.
All laws creating, regulating or affecting boards or officers charged with the duty of registering voters, or of distributing ballots to voters, or of receiving, recording or counting votes at elections, shall secure equal representation of the two political parties which, at the general election next preceding that for which such boards or officers are to serve, cast the highest…
Read moreIII.1 proposed for 1939
Article III: Legislature • Section 1: Legislative power.
The legislative power of this state shall be vested in the Senate and Assembly.
Read moreIII.6 proposed for 1939
Article III: Legislature • Section 6: Compensation and traveling expenses of members.
Each member of the legislature shall receive for his services an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars. He shall also be reimbursed for his actual traveling expenses in going to and returning from the place in which the legislature meets, not more than once each week while the legislature is in session. Senators, when the senate alone is…
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Article III: Legislature • Section 7: Members; qualifications; not to receive certain civil appointments; acceptance to vacate seat.
No person shall serve as a member of the legislature unless he or she is a citizen of the United States and has been a resident of the state of New York for five years, and of the assembly or senate district for the twelve months immediately preceding his or her election. No member of the legislature shall, during the…
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Article III: Legislature • Section 8: Time of elections of members.
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.
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Article III: Legislature • Section 9: 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 to preside in the case of the absence or impeachment of…
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Article III: Legislature • Section 10: Journals; open sessions; adjournments.
Each house of the legislature 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.
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Article III: Legislature • Section 11: Members not to be questioned for speeches.
For any speech or debate in either house of the legislature, the members shall not be questioned in any other place.
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Article III: Legislature • Section 12: Bills may originate in either house; may be amended by the other.
Any bill may originate in either house of the legislature, and all bills passed by one house may be amended by the other.
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Article III: Legislature • Section 13: Enacting clause of bills; no law to be enacted except by bill.
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.
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Article III: Legislature • Section 14: Manner of passing bills; message of necessity for immediate vote.
No bill shall be passed or become a law unless it shall have been printed and upon the desks of the members, in its final form, at least three calendar legislative days prior to its final passage, unless the governor, or the acting governor, shall have certified, under his hand and the seal of the state, the facts which in…
Read moreIII.15 proposed for 1939
Article III: Legislature • Section 15: Private or local bills to embrace only one subject, expressed in title.
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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Article III: Legislature • Section 16: Existing law not to be made applicable by reference.
No act shall be passed which shall provide that any existing law, or any part thereof, shall be made or deemed a part of said act, or which shall enact that any existing law, or part thereof, shall be applicable, except by inserting it in such act.
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Article III: Legislature • Section 17: Cases in which private or local bills shall not be passed; restrictions as to certain laws relating to street railroads.
The legislature shall not pass a private or local bill in any of the following cases: Changing the names of persons. Laying out, opening, altering, working or discontinuing roads, highways or alleys, or for draining swamps or other low lands. Locating or changing county seats. Providing for changes of venue in civil or criminal cases. Incorporating villages. Providing for election…
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Article III: Legislature • Section 18: Restrictions on the legislature respecting the making or use of profits by municipal corporations operating certain utility services.
The legislature shall pass no bill, resolution or other measure prohibiting any municipal corporation operating a gas, electric, or water public utility service from making and receiving, in addition to an amount equivalent to taxes which the said service, if privately owned, would pay to such municipal corporation, a fair return on the value of the property used and useful…
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