New Jersey Franchise Statute
XI. And be it enacted, That all free inhabitants of this State, of full age, who are worth fifty pounds, proclamation money, 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 all public officers, which shall be elected by virtue of this act; and no person shall be entitled to vote in any other township or precinct, than that in which he or she doth actually reside at the time of the election.
- Title
- New Jersey Franchise Statute
- Description
- This New Jersey statute explicitly added women to their voting laws, while also allowing free people of color to vote. When New Jersey rewrote its constitution in 1844, it explicitly denied women and African Americans the right to vote.
- Date
- 1797
- Author
- New Jersey. Legislature
- Temporal Coverage
- Early Republic
- 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, 231. New Brunswick: Abraham Blauvelt, 1800
- Digital Repository
- HathiTrust
- Title
- New Jersey Franchise Statute
- Description
- This New Jersey statute explicitly added women to their voting laws, while also allowing free people of color to vote. When New Jersey rewrote its constitution in 1844, it explicitly denied women and African Americans the right to vote.
- Date
- 1797
- Author
- New Jersey. Legislature
- Temporal Coverage
- Early Republic
- 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, 231. New Brunswick: Abraham Blauvelt, 1800
- Digital Repository
- HathiTrust