Provisions
XI.5 of 1895 • Commissioned and non-commissioned, how chosen.
APPROVED
The Text
All other commissioned and noncommissioned officers shall be chosen or appointed in such manner as the Legislature may deem most conducive to the improvement of the militia, provided, however, that no law shall be passed changing the existing mode of election and appointment unless two thirds of the members present in each house shall concur therein.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1895
• In Article XI: Militia
• Has 56 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1894
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amends or builds on:
◦ 1847-XI.4
◦ 1847-XI.6
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