Provisions
XIV.5 proposed for 1916 • Commissioned and non-commissioned, how chosen.
REJECTED
The Text
All other commissioned and non-commissioned officers shall be chosen or appointed in such manner and shall have such qualifications as the legislature may deem most conducive to the improvement of the militia, provided, however, that no law shall be passed changing the existing mode of election and appointment unless two-thirds of the members present in each house shall concur therein.
A Few Facts
• Has 60 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
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1895-XI.5
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