Provisions
XIV.2 proposed for 1916 • Provisions for enlistment.
REJECTED
The Text
The legislature may provide for the enlistment into the active force of such other persons as may make application to be so enlisted.
A Few Facts
• Has 23 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.2
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