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Provisions

III.1 proposed for 1870 • Legislative power.

REJECTED

The Text

The legislative power shall be vested in a senate and assembly. Any elector shall be eligible to the office of senator and member of assembly.


A Few Facts

• Has 25 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 III:

• Changed the text of a previously existing provision

• Amended or built on:
1847-III.1
1847-III.2

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