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- Article I: Rights and Privileges
- Liberty
- Property ownership
- Religious Freedom
- Religious Equality
- Freedom of the Press; Freedom of Speech
- Limitations on searches and seizures
- Right of a speedy and public trial
- Banning of double jeopardy
- Freedom to bail
- Military subordination to civil powers
- Right to unionize
- Article II: Elections and Suffrage, Section I
- Layout of General Elections
- Rules for questions on ballots
- Requirements for Suffrage
- 18 years of age
- Resident of State and County 30 days
- Absentee Ballots
- Legislature's right to remove a person's suffrage
- Article II, Section II
- Organization of the New Jersey Redistricting Commission (NJRC)
- 13 members to be appointed by specific authority figures
- Qualifications for the one independent member
- Rules regarding the NJRC and their hearings
- Article III: Distribution of the Powers of Government
- Creates 3 branches of government:legislative, executive, and judicial
- Banning of any persons to execute any powers belonging to a different branch
- Article IV: Legislative, Section I
- Article IV, Section II
- Distribution of Senators to Senate districts
- Election of Senators
- Term of Office of Senators
- Distribution of members of the General Assembly
- Term of Office for members of the General Assembly
- Article IV, Section III
- Establishment of an Apportionment Committee
- Distribution of positions among specific authority figures
- Article IV, Section IV
- Filling of Vacancies in legislature
- Powers of houses of legislature
- Passage of bills through legislature
- Pay of members of legislature
- Article II, Section V
- Another public office may not be held by members of legislature
- Article IV, Section VI
- Powers of Legislature
- Creation of revenue-raising bills
- Creation of Zoning laws
- Creation of a public highway, parkway, airport, or place
- Local governments may assume power of legislature in time of emergency
- Article IV, Section VII
- No divorce may be granted by legislature
- Regulations regarding the registration of gambling
- Legalization of organizations to engage in "games of chance", prize-awarding, etc.
- Legalization of legislature-enacted State Lotteries
- Legislature's authority over Atlantic City casinos
- Legalization of horse racing
- Legislature shall not pass ex post facto laws
- Legislature shall not pass omnibus laws
- Other rules regarding laws
- Types of laws legislature may pass
- Article IV, Section VIII
- Oath of members of legislature
- Article V: Executive, Section I
- Powers to be rested in the governor
- Requirements to be a governor
- Governors may not hold any other positions
- Term of Office for a governor
- Regulations regarding vacancy of office
- Powers of the governor
- Governor's powers to veto or approve
- Article V, Section II
- Governor's power to pardon
- Law-granted parole
- Article V, Section III
- Article V, Section IV
- Layout and regulations regarding principal departments
- Powers of the Governor to appoint a Secretary of State, Attorney General, and Lieutenant-Governor
- Governor's power to investigate conduct of any employee or officer
- Rules regarding the announcement and passage of regulation
- Article VI: Judicial, Section I
- Article VI, Section II
- Layout of the Supreme and Superior Court
- Supreme Court has power over the practice of law and justice, and disciplines of the persons admitted
- Article VI, Section III
- Regulations regarding the Superior Court
- Divisions of Superior Court
- Article VI, Section IV
- Article VI, Section V
- In capital causes, or in causes of dissent of the Appellate Division, Appeals go to the Supreme Court
- Appeals originating from either the law or chancery division may be taken to the appellate division
- Article VI, Section VI
- Governor's power to appoint the chief justice, and any assistant justices; of the Supreme, Superior, and Inferior courts
- Requirements to be a judge (Superior Court) or justice (Supreme Court)
- Judge and Justices term of office
- Regulation regarding impeachment of judges and justices
- Payment of judges and justices
- Judge's/Justice's singular imployment
- Article VI, Section VII
- Powers of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
- Article VI, Section VIII
- Regulations regarding judicial employees of the state
- Phrasing of types of costs
- Article VII, Section I
- Officer's oath to perform his duties
- Regulations regarding pay and promotions of employees of the state
- Responsibilities and term of office of the State Auditor
- Article VII, Section II
- Nomination of county prosecutors
- Regulation regarding the election of County sherrifs, surrogates, and clerks
- Article VII, Section III
- Article VIII: Taxation and Finance, Section I
- Assessment of property for taxation
- Legislature's power to enact laws regarding the value of parcels of land
- Regulations regarding tax exemption
- Regulations regarding tax deductions for military service
- Regulations regarding tax deductions for seniors on Social Security
- Legislature's right to enacting a homestead statue
- Legislature's right to allowing municipalities to distribute tax exemptions on buildings needing rehabilitation
- Article VIII, Section II
- No loans may be made from the credit of the State
- Appropriation of moneys approved by law
- Regulation regarding appropriation of money
- Regulation regarding the budget and State debt and liabilities
- Addition of a tax on motor vehicle fuel
- Regulations regarding the use of revenue obtained from the motor vehicle fuel
- Addition of moneys obtained through the Corporate Business Tax Act into the General Fund
- Regulation on money spent to regarding hazardous waste facilities and the removal of the products therein
- Regulation regarding appropriation of money to reducing air pollution
- Appropriation of money from the Sales and Use Tax Act into the General Fund
- Regulation regarding use of the money obtain from the Sales and Use Tax Act
- Article VIII, Section III
- Redevelopment and Clearance of blighted areas (eminent domain)
- Regulation regarding municipal, public, and private company's use of that land
- Regulation regarding the banning of donations of property given by the state or municipalities
- Article VIII, Section IV
- Public School System
- Regulation regarding the appropriation of money to the public schools
- School bus system
- Article VIII, Section V
- Protection of tidal lands
- Article IX: Amendments, Section I
- Senator's/member of the General Assembly's right to propose new Amendments
- Regulations regarding the proposed amendment's distribution to the houses and announce to the public
- Article X: General Provisions, Section I
- Regulations regarding the use of the Great Seal
- Regulations regarding uniformality in words at the end of indictments and commissions
- Phrasing that "people" or any personal pronoun refers to both sexes
- Date of adoption of this document
- Article XI: Schedule, Section I
- Replacement of the old State Constitution (1844)
- Legislature's duty to render the constitution effective
- Article XI, Section II
- Regulation regarding a change in a senator's term of office, and how it is to be handled
- Article XI, Section III
- The adoption of this constitution shall not effect the tenure or term of office of any person then holding public office
- Legislature's duty to allocate executive and administrative offices within the principal departments
- Article XI, Section IV
- Governor's duty to appoint new Supreme Court justices
- Regulation regarding the promotion of judges from Court of Errors and Appeals to Superior Court
- Promotion of judges of the Court of Common Pleas to County Courts
- Abolishment of Court of Chancery, current Supreme Court, Prerogative Court, and the Court of Errors and Appeals
- Regulation regarding transfer of duties and employees from certain minor courts to the County Courts '
- The Supreme Court's governance over County Courts
- Transfer of all Advisory Masters from courts abolished to the Superior Court
- Transfer of all cases in courts abolished to other courts
- Transfer of powers of courts abolished to the Superior or Supreme Court
- Transfer of officials of the Court of Chancery to similar positions in the Superior Court
- Regulation regarding judicial expenditures
- Article XI, Section V
- Allocation of Senators among Senate Districts
- Establishment of an Apportionment Committee to allocate Assembly Districts
- Regulation regarding the possible failure of the Apportionment Committee
- Article XI, Section VI
- Abolishment of the County Courts
- Transfer of powers to the Superior Court
- Transfer of members of the County Courts to the Superior Court
- Transfer of surrogates to the Chancery Division of the Superior Court
- Article XI, Section VII
- Regulation regarding a vacancy of the office of the Governor
- Regulation regarding the filling of the aforementioned vacancy