Provisions
IV.2 of 1847 • Qualifications of governor.
APPROVED
The Text
No person, except a 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 have attained the age of thirty years, and who shall not have been, five years next preceding his election, a resident within this state.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1847
• In Article IV:
• Has 53 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:
◦ 1845-III.2
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