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Provisions

XV of 1777 • Conference of two houses; executive sessions.

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The Text

That, whenever the assembly and senate disagree, a conference shall be held in the presence of both, and be managed by committees, to be by them respectively chosen by ballot. That the doors, both of the senate and assembly, shall at all times be kept open to all persons, except when the welfare of the state shall require their debates to be kept secret. And the journals of all their proceedings shall be kept in the manner heretofore accustomed by the general assembly of the colony of New York; and, except such parts as they shall, as aforesaid, respectively determine not to make public, be, from day to day, if the business of the legislature will permit, published.


A Few Facts

• Joined the Constitution in 1777

• In Article XV:

• Has 118 words

• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention

• Was adopted without a vote

• Is a new addition

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