Provisions
VIII.10 proposed for 1870 • Debts for state defense.
REJECTED
The Text
The State may also contract debts to repel invasion of the State or of the United States, to suppress insurrection in the State or the United States, or to defend the State or the United States in war; but the money so raised shall be applied to such purpose or to repay such debts, and to no other purpose.
A Few Facts
• Has 59 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 VIII:
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1847-VII.11
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