Provisions
XIV.1 proposed for 1916 • Militia.
REJECTED
The Text
All able-bodied male citizens between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, who are residents of the state, shall constitute the militia, subject however to such exemptions as are now, or may be hereafter created by the laws of the United States, or by the legislature of this state.
A Few Facts
• Has 49 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 XIV: Military
• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1895-XI.1
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