Provisions
I.1 of 1939 • Rights, privileges and franchise secured.
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 or her peers.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1939
• In Article I: Bill Of Rights
• Has 37 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1938
• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision
• Amends or builds on:
◦ 1895-I.1
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