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Provisions

I.6 proposed for 1870 • Rights of accused in criminal cases; taking private property for public use.

REJECTED

The Text

No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, unless on indictment by a grand jury, except in cases of impeachment, and in cases arising in the militia when in actual service, and in the land and naval forces in time of war, or in the forces which the State may keep with the consent of Congress, in time of peace, and in cases of petit larceny under the regulations of the Legislature. In any trial in any court the party accused shall be confronted with the witnesses against him, and be allowed to appear and defend in person and with counsel as in civil actions. No person shall be twice put in jeopardy for the same offence, nor shall he be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself ; nor be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law ; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.


A Few Facts

• Has 165 words

• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention

• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1869

If New Yorkers voted to approve this provision, it would have:

• Joined the Constitution in 1870

• Been in Article I:

• Changed the text of a previously existing provision

• Amended or built on:
1847-I.6


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