Provisions
XIV.3 proposed for 1916 • Organization and maintenance of militia.
REJECTED
The Text
The militia shall be organized and divided into such land and naval, and active and reserve forces, as the legislature may deem proper, provided however that there shall be maintained at all times a force of not less than ten thousand enlisted men, fully uniformed, armed, equipped, disciplined and ready for active service. And it shall be the duty of the legislature at each session to make sufficient appropriations for the maintenance thereof.
A Few Facts
• Has 73 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.3
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