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Virginia Limited Constitutional Convention for Nonsectarian Private School Tuition Grants Measure (January 1956)
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| Topic School choice policy and State constitutional conventions |
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| Type Legislatively referred state statute |
Origin |
Virginia Limited Constitutional Convention for Nonsectarian Private School Tuition Grants Measure was on the ballot as a legislatively referred state statute in Virginia on January 9, 1956. It was approved.
A "yes" vote supported authorizing a limited constitutional convention to revise Section 141 of the Virginia Constitution to allow the General Assembly and local governments to use public funds to provide tuition grants for students attending nonsectarian private schools. |
A "no" vote opposed authorizing a limited constitutional convention to revise Section 141 of the Virginia Constitution to allow the General Assembly and local governments to use public funds to provide tuition grants for students attending nonsectarian private schools. |
Election results
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304,154 | 67.54% | ||
| No | 146,164 | 32.46% | ||
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for Limited Constitutional Convention for Nonsectarian Private School Tuition Grants Measure was as follows:
| “ | Shall there be a convention to revise the Constitution and amend the same? | ” |
Ballot summary
The ballot summary for this measure was:
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The Act of the General Assembly submitting to the people the question below provides that the elector is voting for or against a convention to which will be delegated by the people only the limited powers of revising and amending Section 141 of the Constitution to the extent that is necessary to accomplish the following purposes, and no other powers: To permit the General Assembly and the governing bodies of the several counties, cities and towns to appropriate funds for educational purposes which may be expanded in furtherance of elementary, secondary, collegiate and graduate education of Virginia students in public non-sectarian private schools and institutions of learning in addition to those owned or exclusively controlled by the state or any such county, city or town. 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 proclaim said revisions and amendments adopted by it within the scope of said power 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 revisions. In the light of the foregoing convention the question to be voted on is as follows: Shall there be a convention to revise the Constitution and amend the same? | ” |
Path to the ballot
The Virginia State Legislature voted to place the constitutional convention question on the ballot.[1]
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