Provisions
III.14 proposed for 1870 • Laws on one subject.
REJECTED
The Text
No law shall embrace more than one subject, which shall be named in the title ; but if the title contain only one subject, the law shall be valid as to that, and void as to other subjects. No law shall be revived, altered or amended by reference to its title only, but the act revived, or the section or sections thereof as altered or amended, shall be re-enacted and published at length.
A Few Facts
• Has 73 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.16
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