The State of New Jersey

Constitution of 1844

We, the people of the State of New Jersey, grateful to Almighty God for the civil and religious liberty which He hath so permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing upon our endeavors to secure and transmit the same unimpaired to succeeding generations, do ordain and establish this constitution.

Article 1: Rights and Privileges.
Article 2: The Right of Suffrage.
Article 3: Distribution of the Powers of Government.
Article 4: Legislative.
Article 5: Executive.
Article 6: Judiciary.
Article 7: Appointing Power and Tenure of Office.
Article 8: General Provisions.
Article 9: Amendments.
Article 10: Schedule.

Done in convention, at the State-house in Trenton, on the twenty-ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the sixty-eighth.

ALEXANDER WURTZ, President.

WILLIAM PATERSON, Secretary.
Th. J. SAUNDERS, Assistant Secretary.

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Text prepared by the Governmental Reference Office of the New Jersey State Library, February, 1997.

Revised and corrected 6 April 1998. This document is maintained by hdunn@njstatelib.org