Provisions
IV.2 proposed for 1916 • Requisite 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, of the age of not less than thirty years, and who shall have been five years next preceding his election a resident of this state.
A Few Facts
• Has 44 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 4 of 1915
If New Yorkers voted to approve this provision, it would have:
• Joined the Constitution in 1916
• Been in Article IV: Executive
• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1895-IV.2
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