Provisions
IV.2 proposed for 1870 • Qualifications of governor.
REJECTED
The Text
No person shall be eligible to the office of governor or lieutenant-governor, except a citizen of the United States, who shall have attained the age of thirty years, and have been five years next preceding his election a resident of the State.
A Few Facts
• Has 42 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 IV:
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1847-IV.2
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