Provisions
III.2 of 1845 • Qualifications of governor.
APPROVED
The Text
1845 Constitutional Amendment:
No property qualification shall be required to render a person eligible to or capable of holding any office or public trust in this state.
The full provision includes both the amendment and the text it amends – NY Constitution 1822, Article III, Section 2:
No person, except a native citizen of the United States, shall be eligible to the office of governor; nor shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not be a freeholder, and shall not have attained the age of thirty years, and have been five years a resident within this state; unless he shall have been absent during that time, on public business of the United States, or of this state.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1845
• In Article III:
• Has 118 words
• Was proposed by the Legislature
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1845
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amends or builds on:
◦ 1822-III.2
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