Provisions
I.1 of 1847 • Rights of citizens.
APPROVED
The Text
No member of this state shall be disfranchised or deprived of any of the rights or privileges secured to any citizen thereof, unless by the law of the land or the judgment of his peers.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1847
• In Article I:
• Has 35 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1846
• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision
• Amends or builds on:
◦ 1822-VII.1
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