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Florida Amendment 11, Additional Method of Revising the Constitution Amendment (1964)
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| Topic Constitutional wording changes and State legislatures measures |
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| Type Legislatively referred constitutional amendment |
Origin |
Florida Amendment 11 was on the ballot as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in Florida on November 3, 1964. It was approved.
A “yes” vote supported providing an additional legislative method of revising or amending the constitution. |
A “no” vote opposed providing an additional legislative method of revising or amending the constitution. |
Election results
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Florida Amendment 11 |
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
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420,006 | 51.00% | ||
| No | 403,565 | 49.00% | ||
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for Amendment 11 was as follows:
| “ | NO. 11—CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE XVII Additional Method of Revising or Amending the Constitution—Proposing an amendment to Article XVII of the Florida Constitution providing an additional method of revising or amending the Constitution; providing that either branch of the Legislature may propose by joint resolution a revision of the entire Constitution or a revision or amendment of any portion and may direct and provide for an election thereon. | ” |
Full Text
The full text of this measure is available here.
Constitutional changes
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Section 4. Additional Method of Revising or Amending Constitution. As a method of revising the entire constitution of Florida, and as an additional method of revising or amending any portion or portions of it, either branch of the legislature, at any regular session, or at any special or extraordinary session called for the purpose, may propose by joint resolution a revision of the entire constitution or a revision or amendment of any portion or portions thereof and may direct and provide for an election thereon. If the joint resolution is adopted by vote of three-fifths (3/5) of the members elected to each house, the yeas and nays shall be entered upon their respective journals, and the proposed revision or amendment shall be submitted to the electors of the state for ratification or rejection at the next general election held more than seventy (70) days after the adoption of the resolution unless, by vote of three-fourths (3/4) of the members elected to each house, the legislature shall provide for submission at a special election at an earlier date. The secretary of state shall cause notice of the proposed revision or amendment and of the date of the election thereon to be published twice in one newspaper in each county in which a newspaper is published, the first publication to be not more than ten (10) or less than eight (8) weeks before the election and the second publication to be at least one (1) week after the first and not less than four (4) weeks before the election. If the proposed revision or amendment receives the favorable vote of a majority of the electors voting thereon, it shall take effect at noon on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of the January following the election if voted upon in a general election, and on the sixtieth (60th) day after the election if voted upon in a special election, or in either case on any date designated therein. |
Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the Florida Constitution
A 60% vote was required during one legislative session for the Florida State Legislature to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot. That amounted to a minimum of 51 votes in the Florida House of Representatives and 18 votes in the Florida State Senate, assuming no vacancies. Amendments did not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot. Amendments on the ballot required a simple majority vote in this year.
See also
External links
- Florida Constitution Revision Commission, "Florida's Constitutions: The Documentary History"
- Ocala Star-Banner, "Automatic Voting Machine Sample Ballot, General Election, November 3, 1964, Marion County, Florida," October 26, 1964
Footnotes
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