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Provisions

III.10 of 1847 • Quorum; special powers of each house.

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The Text

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 when the lieutenant governor shall not attend as president, or shall act as governor.


A Few Facts

• Joined the Constitution in 1847

• In Article III:

• Has 63 words

• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention

• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1846

• Changed the text of a previously existing provision

• Amends or builds on:
1822-I.3

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