The following questions appeared on the November 7, 2006 GENERAL ELECTION ballot

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Questions Relating to Constitutional Amendments proposed by the 2006 General Court

Question No. 1.  "Are you in favor of amending the first part of the Constitution by inserting a new article 12-a to provide that private property can only be taken as follows:

[Art.] 12-a [Power to Take Property Limited.]  No part of a person's property shall be taken by eminent domain and transferred, directly or indirectly, to another person if the taking is for the purpose of private development or other private use of the property."
(This question is submitted to the voters by the 2006 Legislature on votes of 277 to 61 in the House of Representatives and 24 to 0 in the Senate. CACR 30)

Question No. 2. "Are you in favor of amending the second part of the Constitution by amending article 11 to read as follows:

[Art.] 11. [Small Towns; Representation by Districts.] When the population of any town or ward, according to the last federal census, is within a reasonable deviation from the ideal population for one or more representative seats, the town or ward shall have its own district of one or more representative seats.  The apportionment shall not deny any other town or ward membership in one non-floterial representative district.  When any town, ward, or unincorporated place has fewer than the number of inhabitants necessary to entitle it to one representative, the legislature shall form those towns, wards, or unincorporated places into representative districts which contain a sufficient number of inhabitants to entitle each district so formed to one or more representatives for the entire district.  In forming the districts, the boundaries of towns, wards, and unincorporated places shall be preserved and contiguous.  The excess number of inhabitants of a district may be added to the excess number of inhabitants of other districts to form at-large or floterial districts conforming to acceptable deviations.  The legislature shall form the representative districts at the regular session following every decennial federal census."
(This question is submitted to the voters by the 2006 Legislature on votes of 256 to55in the House of Representatives and 16 to 7 in the Senate. CACR 41)