Edwin Washington Project

EWP 1 Informative Statement 001

Item

Title

EWP 1 Informative Statement 001

Place

Virginia

Identifier

1000487

Is Version Of

1000487_EWP_Informative_Statement_001.jpg

Is Part Of

Uncategorized

Date Created

2024-01-07

Format

Jpeg Image

Number

0473becadbfc979394ea54447213fdea7faf449014db47d77ba8528c4e6257fd

Source

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Publisher

Digitized by Edwin Washington Project

Rights

Loudoun County Public Schools

Language

English

Replaces

/Volumes/T7 Shield/EWP/Elements/EWP_Files/source/Ingest One/1 Civil Rights/integration_folder/Constitutional_Convention/EWP_Informative_Statement_001.jpg

extracted text

limendment to Constitution of Virginia
"Constitutional Convention Ballot:
WINFORMATORY ST.TEMENT

"The Act of the General Assembly submitting to the people the ques-
tion below provides that the elector is voting for or against a convention
to which will be delegated by the people only the limited pewers of revising
and amending Section 141 of the Constitution to the extemt that is neces-
sary to accomplish the following purposes, and no other powerss

"To permit the Generzl Assembly and the governing hodies of the
severzl counties, cities and towns to appropriste funds focr ecuecational
purposes which may be expended in furtherance of slementary, secondary,
collegiate and graduate eduvcation of Virginia studeats in patlic an
nonsectarian private schools and institutions of lzarning ia addition to
those owned or exclusively ccntrolled by the stat2 cr any such county, city

or towns

. "The act also provides that the legal effect of a majority vote for a
convention will be that the people will delegate to it only the foregoing

powers, except that the convention will be empowered to ordain and pro-

claim said revisions and amendments adopted by it within the scope of

sald powers without submitting same to the electors for approval, but the

convention will not have the power to either consider, adopt or propose any

other amendments or revisionse

"In the light of the foregoing information the question to be voted on
is as follows: '

"Shall there be a convention to revise the Constitution and amend
the same?

"] For the conventions

"] Against the convention."


Item sets

EWP 01 Civil Rights