New Jersey Constitutional Franchise Provision
IV. That all inhabitants of this Colony, of full age, who are worth fifty pounds, proclamation money, clear estate in the same, and have resided within the county in which they claim a vote for twelve months immediately preceding the election, shall be entitled to vote for representatives in council and assembly; and also for all other public officers that shall be elected by the people of the county at large.
- Title
- New Jersey Constitutional Franchise Provision
- Description
- This provision of the first New Jersey Constitution did not limit franchise by race or gender, allowing unmarried women and free people of color who could meet the property requirement to vote. When New Jersey rewrote its constitution in 1844, it explicitly denied women and African Americans the right to vote.
- Date
- 1776
- Author
- New Jersey. Legislature
- Temporal Coverage
- Revolutionary America
- Document Type
- Legal Code
- Document Category
- Primary Source
- Bibliographic Citation
- Laws of the State of New Jersey, Revised and Published Under the Authority of the Legislature, by William Paterson, 7. New Brunswick: Abraham Blauvelt, 1800
- Digital Repository
- HathiTrust
- Title
- New Jersey Constitutional Franchise Provision
- Description
- This provision of the first New Jersey Constitution did not limit franchise by race or gender, allowing unmarried women and free people of color who could meet the property requirement to vote. When New Jersey rewrote its constitution in 1844, it explicitly denied women and African Americans the right to vote.
- Date
- 1776
- Author
- New Jersey. Legislature
- Temporal Coverage
- Revolutionary America
- Document Type
- Legal Code
- Document Category
- Primary Source
- Bibliographic Citation
- Laws of the State of New Jersey, Revised and Published Under the Authority of the Legislature, by William Paterson, 7. New Brunswick: Abraham Blauvelt, 1800
- Digital Repository
- HathiTrust