New Jersey has had three constitutions in its history as a state.
New Jersey State Constitution of 1947, our current Constitution
- Search or browse the New Jersey State Constitution of 1947 on the Legislature’s website.
See also: The Constitution of 1947 (includes images of the digitized constitution, via New Jersey State Archives)
New Jersey 1947 Constitutional Convention Proceedings
- Volume I: Convention Proceedings Record
- Volume II: Convention Proceedings Appendix and Index to Volumes I and II
- Volume III: Committee on Rights, Privileges, Amendments and Miscellaneous Provisions and Committee on the Legislative Record
- Volume IV: Committee on the Judiciary Record
- Volume V: Committee on Executive, Militia and Civil Officers, Committee on Taxation and Finance, Committee on Submission and Address to the People, Record, Index to Volumes III, IV and V
- New Jersey Constitutional Convention Proceedings 1947 Searchable Database (via NJSL)
See also
- other related documents
- digitized NJ Constitution documents and materials
- Constitutional Amendments
- searchable version of the New Jersey Constitutional Convention Proceedings 1947
New Jersey State Constitution of 1844
- The Constitution of 1844 (full text, via New Jersey State Archives)
- The Constitution of 1844 (including amendments from 1875 and 1897 via HathiTrust, published in 1906 and 1910)
New Jersey 1844 Constitutional Convention Proceedings
Journal of Proceedings, Constitutional Convention of 1844
New Jersey State Constitution of 1776
- The Constitution of 1776 (full text, via New Jersey Department of State)
See also
- State Constitutions Illustrated: New Jersey (from the HeinOnline database)
- The Early Constitutions of New Jersey by Edward Q. Keasbey, 1 New Jersey Law Review 20, May 1915.
- “Traces of Its Labors”: The Constitutional Commission, The Legislature and Their Influence on the New Jersey Constitution, 1873-1875 by Peter J. Mazzei and Robert F. Williams, Office of Legislative Services, 2012
