Maine Constitution Codifying Time, Proposed Constitutional Amendment No. 1 (1967)

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The Maine Constitution Codifying Time Referendum, also known as Proposed Constitutional Amendment No. 1, was on the November 7, 1967 ballot in Maine as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment, where it was approved. The measure made the schedule for the recodification of the Maine Constitution every 10 years starting in 1973. Prior to this, it was whenever a new revision of the public laws of the state was authorized.

Background

The process for the codification of the Maine Constitution was originally created in 1950 by another legislatively referred constitutional amendment.

Election results

Maine Proposed Constitutional Amendment No. 1 (1967)
Result		Votes	Percentage
a Yes		46,649	61.02%
No		29,798	38.98%

Election results via: Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library, Proposed Constitutional Amendments 1820-

Text of measure

The language appeared on the ballot as:

“

PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NO. 1 "Shall the Constitution be amended as proposed by a resolution of the Legislature Relating to Time for Codifying the Constitution?"

”

Similar measures

• Maine Codification of State Constitution, Proposed Constitutional Amendment No. 1 (1950) a

See also

Suggest a link

• Maine 1967 ballot measures
• 1967 ballot measures
• List of Maine ballot measures
• History of Initiative & Referendum in Maine

External links

• Lewiston Daily Sun, "Specimen Ballot," October 31, 1967
• Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library, Proposed Constitutional Amendments 1820-
• National Conference of State Legislatures, State Ballot Measures Database