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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
    • Layout of militia
  • 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
      • Appellate
      • Law
      • Chancery
  • Article VI, Section IV
    • (Repealed)
  • 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
    • Liability of Impeachment
  • 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