New York Constitution
Article I - Bill Of Rights
- Section 1 - Rights, privileges and franchise secured; power of legislature to dispense with primary elections in certain cases
- Section 2 - Trial by jury; how waived
- Section 3 - Freedom of worship; religious liberty
- Section 4 - Habeas corpus
- Section 5 - Bail; fines; punishments; detention of witnesses
- Section 6 - Grand jury; protection of certain enumerated rights; duty of public officers to sign waiver of immunity and give testimony; penalty for refusal
- Section 7 - Compensation for taking private property; private roads; drainage of agricultural lands
- Section 8 - Freedom of speech and press; criminal prosecutions for libel
- Section 9 - Right to assemble and petition; divorce; lotteries; pool-selling and gambling; laws to prevent; pari-mutual betting on horse races permitted; games of chance, bingo or lotto authorized under certain restrictions
- Section 10 Repealed
- Section 11 - Equal protection of laws; discrimination in civil rights prohibited
- Section 12 - Security against unreasonable searches, seizures and interceptions
- Section 13 Repealed
- Section 14 - Common law and acts of the colonial and state legislatures
- Section 15 Repealed
- Section 16 - Damages for injuries causing death
- Section 17 - Labor not a commodity; hours and wages in public work; right to organize and bargain collectively
- Section 18 - Workers' compensation
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