Verso of the Bill of Rights

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Copy of the Amendments proposed to be added to the constitution of the United States —

No. 23

New Jersey House of Assembly
October 29, 1789
Committed to

Messrs
[Isaac] Nicoll
[Daniel] Marsh
[James] Bonny
[Joseph] Stillwell
[John] Witherspoon
[Robert] Jones
[Franklin] Davenport
[Edward] Hall
Elijah Townsend
[Joshua] Corshon
[Aaron] Kitchel
Dr. [Eli] Elmer
[Aaron] Hankinson [Speaker] & such other Members as choose to attend

Council Chamber November 4th, [17]89
Committed to

Messrs
[Jonathan] Dayton
[Benjamin] Van Cleve
[William] Woodhull
[Ephraim] Martin & such other Members as are willing to attend

Assembly of this State, and it is hereby enacted by the Authority of the same, That the following Articles proposed by Congress in Addition to and amendment of the Constitution of the United States, to wit,

"Article the first. After the first enumeration required by the first article of the Constitution there shall be one representative for every thirty thousand until the number shall amount to one hundred after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress that there shall be not less than one hundred representatives, nor less than one Representative for every forty thousand persons until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress that there shall not be less than two hundred representatives, nor more than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons.

Article the third. Congress shall make no law respecting an Establishment of Religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging

the freedom of Speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to Assemble and to Petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Article the Fourth. A well regulated Militia being necessary to the Security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.

Article the Fifth. No Soldier shall in time of peace be Quartered in any House, without the Consent of the owner, nor in time of War but in a manner to be prescribed by Law.

Article the Sixth. The right of the People to be secure in their persons, Houses, Papers, and effects against unreasonable Searches and Seizures shall not be violated and no Warrants shall issue but upon probable cause supported by Oath or Affirmation and particularly discribing the place to be searched and the person or things to be seized.

Article the Seventh. No person shall be held to answer for a Capital, or otherwise infamous Crime unless on a presentment or Indictment of a Grand

Jury except in cases arising in the land or Naval forces, or in the Militia when in actual Service in time of War or public danger nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in Jeopardy of life or limb nor shall be compelled in any Criminal case to be a Witness against himself nor be deprived of life liberty or property without due process of law nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.

Article the eighth. In all criminal Prosecutions the Accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public tryal by an impartial Jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed which district shall have been previously ascertained by Law and to be informed of the nature and cause of the Accusation to be confronted with the Witnesses against him, to have compulsory process for obtaining Witnesses in his favour and to have the assistance of Counsel for his defence.

Article the Ninth. In Suits at common Law where the Value in controversy shall exceed

twenty Dollars the right of tryal by Jury shall be preserved and no fact tryed by a Jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States than according to the Rules of the common Law.

Article the Tenth. Excessive Bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Article the eleventh. The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others Retained by the People.

Article the twelfth. The Powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States are reserved to the States respectively or to the people." be and the same are hereby ratified and adopted by the State of New Jersey.

An Act to ratify on the part of this State certain amendments to the Constitution of the United States House of Assembly November 19th 1789 This Bill having been three times read in this House is pased. Maskell Ewing Council Chamber Nov.m 20th 1789 This Bill having been three times read in Council is passed. — B. Reed

the first session of the thirty-ninth Congress by a resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, to the several state legislatures, be and the same is hereby ratified upon the part of this legislature and made a part of the Constitution of the United States of America, said amendment being in the following words, to wit:

Article XIV

1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the

State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

2 - Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians

not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellions or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion

which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

3 - No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial

officer of any State to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof, but Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each house, remove such disability.

4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection

or rebellion, shall not be questioned, but neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion, against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave, but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall be held illegal and void.

5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article.

Approved September 11, 1866
Marcus L. Ward

House of Assembly
September 11, 1866
This joint resolution having been three times read and compared in the House of Assembly
Resolved that the same do pass.
By order of the House of Assembly.
John Hill, Speaker of the House of Assembly

In Senate
September 11, 1866
This joint resolution having been three times read in the Senate.
Resolved that the same do pass.
By order of the Senate.
James M. Scovel, President of the Senate

the Legislature of this state. 

The Legislature of the State of New Jersey having seriously and deliberately considered the present situation of the United States, do declare and make known: That the basis of all government is the consent of the governed; and all constitutions are contracts between the parties bound thereby; that until any proposition to alter the fundamental law, to which all the states have consented, has been ratified by such number of the States, as by the Federal Constitution, makes it binding upon all, any one that has

assented is at liberty to withdraw that assent, and it becomes its duty to do so, when, upon mature consideration, such withdrawal seems to be necessary to the safety and happiness of all; prudence dictates that a consent once given, should not be recalled for light and transient causes; but the right is a natural right, the exercise of which is accompanied with no injustice to any of the parties; it has therefore been universally recognized as inhering in every party, and has ever been left unimpaired by any positive regulation.

The said proposed amendment 

not having yet received the assent of the three‐fourths of the states which is necessary to make it valid, the natural and constitutional right of this state to withdraw its assent is undeniable.

With these impressions and with a solemn appeal to the Searcher of all Hearts, for the rectitude of our intentions and under the conviction that the origin and objects of said proposed amendment were unseemly and unjust, and that the necessary result of its adoption, must be the disturbance of the harmony, if not the destruction of our system of self‐government, and that it is our duty to ourselves and our sister

states to expose the same, do further declare, That, it being necessary, by the Constitution, that every amendment to the same should be proposed by two‐thirds of both houses of Congress, the authors of said proposition, for the purpose of securing the assent of the requisite majority, determined to and did exclude, from the said two houses, Eighty representatives from Eleven states of the Union, upon the pretence that there were no such states in the Union; but finding that two‐thirds of the remainder of the said houses, could not be brought to assent to the said proposition, they deliberately formed and carried

out the design of mutilating the integrity of the United States’ Senate, and without any pretext or justification, other than the possession of the power, without the right, and in palpable violation of the Constitution, Ejected a member of their own body representing this state, and thus practically denied to New Jersey its Equal suffrage in the Senate, and thereby nominally secured the vote of two‐thirds of the said houses.

The object of dismembering the highest representative assembly in the nation and humiliating a State of the Union, faithful at all times to all its obligations and the object of said amendment were

one: ‐ to place new and unheard of powers in the hands of a faction, that it might absorb to itself all executive, judicial and legislative power, necessary to secure for itself immunity for the unconstitutional acts it had already committed, and those it has since inflicted on a too patient people.

The subsequent usurpations of these once national assemblies, in passing pretended laws for the establishment in ten states, of martial law, which is nothing but the will of the military commander, and therefore inconsistent with the very nature of all laws, for the purpose of reducing to slavery men of their own race in those

States, or compelling them, contrary to their own convictions, to exercise the elective franchise in obedience to the dictation of a faction in those Assemblies: the attempt to commit to one man, arbitrary and uncontrollable power, which they have found necessary to exercise, to force the people of those states into compliance with their will; the authority given to the Secretary of War to use the name of the President, to countermand the President’s orders, and to certify military orders to be by direction of the President, when they are notoriously known to be contrary to the President’s direction, thus keeping up the forms of the Constitution

to which the people are accustomed, but practically deposing the President from his office of Commander‐in‐Chief, and suppressing one of the great departments of the government, that of the Executive; the attempt to withdraw from the supreme judicial tribunal of the nation, the jurisdiction to examine and decide upon, the conformity of their pretended laws to the Constitution, which was the chief function of that august tribunal, as organized by the fathers of the Republic; all, are but amplified explanations of the power they hoped to acquire by the adoption of the said amendment.

To conceal from the people the immense alterations of the

fundamental law, they intended to accomplish by the said amendment, they gilded the same with propositions of justice, drawn from the State Constitutions; but like all the essays of unlawful power to commend its designs to populace favor, it is marked by the most absurd and incoherent provisions.

It proposes to make it a part of the Constitution of the United States, that naturalized citizens of the United States shall be citizens of the United States, as if that were not so without such absurd declaration.

It lodges with the legislative branch of the government the power of pardon, which properly be‐

longs, by our system, to the Executive.

It denounces and inflicts punishment for past offences, by constitutional provision, and thus would make the whole people of this great nation, in their most solemn and sovereign act, guilty of violating a cardinal principle of American liberty; that no punishment can be inflicted for any offence, unless it is provided by law, before the commission of the offence.

It usurps the power of punishment, which, in any coherent system of government, belongs to the Judiciary, and commits it to the people in their sovereign capacity.

It degrades the nation, by proclaiming to the world that no confidence can be placed in its honesty or morality.

It appeals to the fears of the public creditors, by publishing a libel on the American people and fixing it forever in the national constitution, as a stigma upon the present generation, that there must be constitutional guards against a repudiation of the public debt, as if it were possible that a people, who were so corrupt as to disregard such an obligation, would be bound by any contract constitutional or otherwise.

It imposes new prohibitions upon the power of the state to pass

laws, and interdicts the execution of such parts of the Common law as the national Judiciary may esteem inconsistent with the vague provisions of the said amendment, made vague for the purpose of facilitating encroachments upon the lives, liberties and property of the people.

It enlarges the Judicial power of the United States, so as to bring every law passed by the state, and every principle of the Common law, relating to life, liberty or property, within the jurisdiction of the federal tribunals, and charges those tribunals with duties, to the due performance of which, they, from their nature and organization and their distance from the people, are unequal.

It makes a new apportionment of representation in the national councils, for no other reason than thereby to secure to a faction, a sufficient number of the votes of a servile and ignorant race, to outweigh the intelligent voices of their own.

It sets up a standard of suffrage dependent entirely upon citizenship majority, inhabitancy and manhood, and any interference whatever by the state, imposing any other reasonable qualifications, as time of inhabitancy, causes a reduction of the State’s representation.

But the demand of the supporters of this amendment in this state, that Congress should

compel the people of New Jersey to adopt what is called “impartial suffrage,” makes it apparent that this section was intended to transfer to Congress the whole control of the right of suffrage in the state, and to deprive the state of a free representation, by destroying the power of regulating suffrage within its own limits, a power which they have never been willing to surrender to the general government and which was reserved to the states as the fundamental principal on which the Constitution itself was constructed, the principle of self government.

This section, as well as all others of the amendment

is couched in ambiguous, vague and obscure language, the uniform resort of those who seek to encroach upon public liberty; strictly construed it dispenses entirely with a House of Representatives, unless the states shall abrogate every qualification, and especially that of time of inhabitancy, without which the right of suffrage is worthless.

This Legislature, feeling conscious of the support of the largest majority of the people, that has even given expression to the public will, declare, that the said proposed amendment being designed to confer, or to compel the states to confer, the sovereign right of the elective

franchise upon a race which has never given the slightest evidence, at any time, or in any quarter of the Globe, of its capacity for self‐government, and erect an impracticable standard of suffrage, which will render the right valueless to any portion of the people, was intended to overthrow the system of self government, under which the people of the United States have, for eighty years, enjoyed their liberties, and is unfit from its origin, its objects and its matter to be incorporated with the fundamental law of a free people; Therefore,

1. Be it Resolved by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of

New Jersey, that the Joint Resolution approved September Eleventh, Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and Sixty‐Six relative to amending the Constitution of the United States, which is in the following words, to wit:

“Joint Resolution ratifying the Amendment of the Constitution of the United States

1. Be it Resolved by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, that the amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed at the first session of the thirty ninth Congress, by a resolution of the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, to the several

state legislatures, be and the same is hereby ratified upon the part of this legislature, and made a part of the constitution of the United States of America, said amendment being in following words, to wit:

Article XIV

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States, and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person

within its jurisdiction the Equal protection of the laws.

Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of Electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, being twenty‐ one years of age and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except

for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty‐one years of age in such state.

Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or Elector of President or Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state who, having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature or as an executive or judicial officer of any state to support the constitution of the United States, shall have

engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two‐thirds of each house, remove such disability.

Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for the payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States, nor any state, shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or Emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall

be held illegal and void.

Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”

Be and the same is hereby rescinded, and the consent on behalf of the State of New Jersey to ratify the proposed fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby withdrawn.

2. And be it resolved, that copies of the foregoing preamble and resolution, certified to by the President of the Senate and Speaker of the General Assembly, be forwarded to the President of the United States, the Secretary of State of the United States, to each

of our Senators and Representatives in Congress and to the Governors of the respective states.

3. And be it resolved, that these Resolutions shall take effect immediately.

In Senate,
February 19th, 1868.
This Joint Resolution having been three times read and compared in the Senate, Resolved, that the same do pass.
By order of the Senate.
H. S. Little, President of the Senate

House of Assembly,
February 20th, 1868.
This Joint Resolution having been three times read and compared in the House of Assembly, Resolved, that the same do pass.
By order of the House of Assembly.
A. O. Evans, Speaker of House of Assembly

I cannot approve the Joint Resolution by which it is now attempted to withdraw or rescind the ratification so made, because,—

1. I deem that such a resolution, if finally adopted, would be of no validity or effect. The only authority by virtue of which the Legislature can take legitimate action upon the subject of amendments to the Constitution of the United States is contained in the fifth article of that instrument. By that article, the State action is limited to the two cases therein specifically named. One is the application by the Legislature to Congress to call a convention for proposing amendments, and the other is when amendments are by Congress proposed to the Legislature. In the latter case, the action of the Legislature can be based only on the proposal then existing and pending before them. When such proposal is accepted and approved, the amendment ratified and returned to the General Government by which it was submitted, the transaction is completed, the decision of the State has been rendered, and the power of the Legislature over the subject is spent. No further action can be taken until the subject is again submitted by Congress, with whom the power to make such submission is exclusively lodged. An omission or failure to ratify by the Legislature of one year, or within any specified time, would not prevent such ratification at a subsequent time; all such legislative cognizance of the subject being dependent upon and continuing with the pendency of the proposal itself.

But with the acceptance of the proposal, and its official and formal return to the authorities, from whom alone it could come, that cognizance must of necessity end. Any other construction is believed to be without support from the Constitution itself, as well as opposed to the general analogies of law.

It must be remembered that while a State has the clear and undoubted right to repeal and rescind its own laws, subject to its contracts, yet that in all its relations to the General Government, its actions are conclusive and final. If a State part with a portion of its soil to the General Government, it cannot recover its title, even under the doctrine of eminent domain. If the Legislature appoint a Senator for the constitutional term, no matter how faithless he may be to the interests of the State, or how wantonly he may disregard the sentiments of her people, the Legislature cannot withdraw the appointment and trust.

An approval or ratification of an amendment to the national Constitution by the Legislature of a State cannot be regarded as experimental or conditional, unless declared to be such when made. When solemnly and unqualifiedly done, it is of the nature and effect of a contract, which cannot be rescinded or changed at the mere will of the State by which it was made.

The Legislature acted on the amendment, under the provisions of the Constitution of the United States; that Constitution fixes no limit of time during which the assent of the requisite number of Legisla-

tures shall be given. By their ratification the Legislature of New Jersey agreed that the amendment should be a part of the Constitution of the United States, whenever the Legislatures of a sufficient number of States had added their assent to that of New Jersey, to make the whole number of assenting Legislatures equal to three-fourths of the States. The ratification of New Jersey, made under the provisions of the Constitution, was without condition or limit of time within which the Legislatures of the other States, necessary to make the requisite number, should signify their assent. Her action so taken and published, enters into and becomes part of the causes and considerations by which the action of other States in the premises, is influenced and determined, and she cannot, by subsequent action, fix any new limit or condition to the contract into which she has duly entered nor withdraw her assent while the conditions upon which it was given remain unchanged and unbroken.

2. If any doubt can exist as to the power of the Legislature to withdraw its approval of such amendment before it has been ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States, it is nowhere supposed that such approval could be afterwards withdrawn. This ratification, by three-fourths of the States, must be deemed already to have been made, unless the Legislature shall assume to decide that when more than one-fourth of the States have, by rebellion and war, withdrawn from their duties and functions as States, and rendered constitutional amendments essential to the welfare of the nation, such States can by their action, prevent the adoption of those amendments, and thus occasion, indirectly and partially, the results which rebellion and war were waged more openly and thoroughly to produce. Of the States that have maintained their fidelity to the Union, and their constitutional relations to each other and the General Government, more than three-fourths have ratified the amendment, and I cannot deem it open to doubt that their action is sufficient and conclusive. If open to doubt it is not to be decided by the Legislatures of the States, and should not be assumed by this Legislature to be within its province to determine.

3. But aside from the absence of any proper, legal or constitutional power possessed by the Legislature, I am constrained to withhold my approval from this Joint Resolution, because, I deem it repugnant to the convictions of the majority of the people, and of the voters of the State. In the general election that followed the ratification of the Amendment in New Jersey, the fact that such ratification was approved by the voters of the State, was abundantly shown. Since then, it has not been considered or canvassed by the people, and no reference was had to it in the late election, at which the present Legislature was chosen.

4. Another, and the remaining reason for withholding my approval, is because I deem the Amendment a wise one, and in a high degree important to the welfare of the nation. Its provisions are eminently

just, and fitted to promote the great objects which the Constitution was formed and intended to secure.

Its first section defines and settles the hitherto disputed question of citizenship, by declaring all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, to be citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside, and as such, entitled to the equal benefit of the laws. It provides that no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; and that no State shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law, or deny to any person within its jurisdiction, the equal protection of the laws.

The second section of the amendment fixes the basis of representation in Congress.

Without this section the political power and representation in Congress of the rebellious States would be largely increased as a consequence of the rebellion, while at the same time the population continued the same. The insurrectionary States would elect members of the House of Representatives upon the whole number instead of three-fifths of their colored population, and in this way possess advantages which they have not heretofore enjoyed. It is against the plainest dictates of wisdom and right to make such a discrimination against the people of the States who have been faithful to the Union, and in favor of those who have so lately waged war to destroy it. It cannot be supposed that the people of this State are in favor of such a distinction; rewarding treason by increasing the political power of those who have committed it; entrusting in an enlarged and unprecedented manner the great interests of the nation, its public credit and well-being, to the decision of representatives whose recent efforts and wishes have been directed to the ruin of both.

The third section of the amendment disqualifies from holding political office certain classes of persons who, having taken oaths to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have afterwards engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof, thus adding perjury to treason. It confers, however, upon Congress the power to remove such disability.

The fourth section provides against the possible validity or legality of debts, obligations or claims incurred in aid of the rebellion, and against the possible questioning of the validity of the public debt incurred in suppressing it.

These are the provisions of the amendment which it is now proposed, if possible, to annul. They need no argument to illustrate their wisdom and justice. The simple statement of them is irresistible by the patriotic judgment, and their ratification has received the approval of the people. The amendment was formally and solemnly ratified upon the part of the Legislature of this State, and thereby, to the extent of its power, made a part of the Constitution of the United States.

Presuming that the object of this Joint Resolution is therein expressed, and my objections being to that object, and to the claim of power to accomplish it, I do not think it necessary or proper to refer to the assumed reasons for the passage of the resolution which are alleged in the preamble which accompanies it.

Although always regretting to differ in opinion from the Legislature, yet, believing that the Joint Resolution now presented would, if approved, be inoperative and vain, in violation of the plighted faith of the State, injurious to the common good, and repugnant to the wishes of the people we represent, I am constrained to return the same to you with my objections as above.

Respectfully,

MARCUS L. WARD

A JOINT RESOLUTION revoking Joint Resolution No. IV of 1868 which sought to withdraw New Jersey’s ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

WHEREAS, The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution granted citizenship to, and protected the civil liberties of, freed slaves; and

WHEREAS, The Fourteenth Amendment also prohibits states from abridging the privileges or immunities of any citizen, depriving any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denying any person equal protection of the laws; and

WHEREAS, The rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment are part of the foundation of our free society; and

WHEREAS, In 1866, the New Jersey Legislature acted to ensure these rights by ratifying the Fourteenth Amendment; and

WHEREAS, Thereafter, the New Jersey Legislature, in 1868, attempted to withdraw its ratification of this amendment by passage of Joint Resolution No. IV; and

WHEREAS, Both the Federal Secretary of State and the Congress refused to recognize New Jersey’s attempt to withdraw ratification and the Fourteenth Amendment became a part of the United States Constitution on July 20, 1868; and

WHEREAS, The attempt to withdraw New Jersey’s ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment is contrary to this State’s long tradition of respect for, and protection of, the civil rights of all persons; and

WHEREAS, Even though the attempt to withdraw New Jersey’s ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment was without effect, there is, nevertheless, a need to rectify this misguided action; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

1. Joint Resolution No. IV of 1868 which attempted to withdraw New Jersey’s ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment is hereby revoked.

2. Duly authenticated copies of this Joint Resolution shall be transmitted to the federal Secretary of State, the presiding officers of the Congress of the United States, and each member of New Jersey’s congressional delegation.

3. This Joint Resolution shall take effect immediately.

APPROVED
23rd DAY of APRIL 2003
James E. McGreevey, Governor

Attest,
Michael R. DeCotiis,
Chief Counsel to the Governor

STATEMENT

This Joint Resolution revokes Joint Resolution No. IV of 1868 which attempted to withdraw New Jersey’s ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Letter from Acting New Jersey Governor William N. Runyon to Senator Edge (Governor of New Jersey), 15 January 1919, explaining why women should get the right to vote.

"Letter from a Real Man to a Politician," 8 January 1920, is against a woman's right to vote.

Letter from H. G. Chase to Governor Edwards, 11 February 1920, against women's suffrage. The author believes it should be a state issue.

Letter from Carrie Chapman Catt, President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, to Governor Edwards, 13 February 1920.

Letter from Alice Paul, National Chairman to the National Women's Party, to Governor Edwards, 14 February 1920.

Letter from Allison Hopkins, New Jersey Chairman of the National Woman's Party, to Governor Edwards, 10 March 1920

Telegram from Governor Edwards to Carrie Hoffman, President of Kansas League of Women Voters, 1920, stating that women's suffrage was one of the governor's platform promises.

and to vest in the Federal Government the power to give all possible protection and assistance to every State which desires to exclude intoxicating liquor from its territory; which amendment shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as a part of the said Constitution of the United States, when ratified by the several states.

2. That the Legislature of the State of New Jersey recommends to the Congress of the United States that the mode of ratification of any such amendment, to be proposed by said Congress to the several states, shall be the one by convention, instead of by the Legislatures, in three-fourths of said several states, as provided in said Article V of said Constitution of the United States.

3. That the Secretary of State be and he is hereby directed to forward a properly authenticated copy of this resolution to the President of the United States, to the Vice President of the United States, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and to each member of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States representing the State of New Jersey.

4. This Joint Resolution shall take effect immediately.

Approved /s/ A. Harry Moore
Governor
Feb. 1 [19]32

Senate Joint Resolution No. 1

SENATE,
January 12, 1932
This bill having been three times read in the
Senate,
RESOLVED, that the same do pass.
By order of the Senate.
/s/ A. Crozer Reeves,
President of the Senate

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY,
January 25, 1932
This bill having been three times read and
compared in the House of Assembly,
RESOLVED, that the same do pass.
By order of the House of Assembly.
/s/ Joseph Greenberg,
Speaker of the House of Assembly

Section 160, Title 5, United States Code

Whenever official notice is received at the Department of State that any amendment proposed to the Constitution of the United States has been adopted, according to the provisions of the Constitution, the Secretary of State shall forthwith cause the amendment to be published, with his certificate, specifying the States by which the same may have been adopted, and that the same has become valid, to all intents and purposes, as a part of the Constitution of the United States.

No. 659
United States of America
Department of State

To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting:

I certify that the copy hereto attached is a true copy of a Resolution of Congress entitled "JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States" the original of which is on file in this Department.

In testimony whereof, I, Henry Stimson, Secretary of State, have hereunto caused the Seal of the Department of State to be affixed and my name subscribed by the Acting Chief Clerk of the said Department, at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, this 21st day of February, 1933.

Henry L. Stimson,
Secretary of State.

By P.F. Allen,
Acting Chief Clerk.

Seventy-second Congress of the United States of America;

At the Second Session,

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the fifth
day of December, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two.

JOINT RESOLUTION

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by conventions in three-fourths of the several States:

"Article --

"Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

“Sec. 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.

"Sec. 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress."

Jno. N. Garner
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Charles Curtis
Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate.

I certify that this Join Resolution originated in the Senate.

Edwin P. Thayer
Secretary.

February 23, 1933

Ref HA.

Sir:

Acknowledgement is hereby made of the receipt of your letter of February 21st, enclosing a certified copy of a Resolution of Congress, entitled "JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States" passed during the second session of the Seventy-second Congress of the United States, "Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday the fifth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and thirty two."

Very truly yours,
Governor.

The Honorable
The Secretary of State,
Washington, D.C.

Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

1. For the purpose of considering the article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed by the Congress, as recited in the preamble of this act, there shall be held in this State a convention of delegates. Such convention shall consist of two hundred and twenty‐six delegates as follows:

Sixty‐four delegates shall be elected from the State at large, and one hundred and sixty‐two county delegates hereinafter called district delegates shall be elected in the several counties of this State; each county being entitled to delegate representation on the basis of twice as many delegates to represent such county as the said county is entitled to elect members of the Senate and the House of Assembly of this State.

2. Any person having the qualifications which would entitle him to a seat in the House of Assembly may be elected as a delegate‐at‐large or district delegate to said convention.

3. The election for delegates shall be held on the third Tuesday in May, one thousand nine hundred and thirty‐three, coincident with and upon the same day with the holding of the primary election for the general election, and shall in all respects, except as herein otherwise provided, be conducted in accord with the provision of an act entitled "An act to regulate elections" (Revision 1930), approved April eighteenth, on thousand nine hundred and thirty, and the acts amendatory and supplemental thereto. A separate ballot printed on bluish tint paper and a separate ballot box shall be

provided for the ballots for convention delegates. The form of the ballot shall be uniform in all the counties of the State and the form thereof shall be prescribed by the Secretary of State. The officials now obligated under such "An act to regulate elections" to furnish ballots, tally sheets, ballot boxes and other equipment necessary for the conduct of an election are hereby directed to furnish similar supplies for the election herein directed to be held. The district boards of election that shall conduct the primary election are hereby required to conduct the election for convention delegates and without addi‐

tional compensation. The powers of all other officials given to or directed to be employed by such "An act to regulate elections" are hereby given to such officials.

4. Any person desiring to be a delegate‐at‐large to said convention shall prior to twenty days before the date fixed for holding such election file a petition with the Secretary of State. Any person desiring to be a candidate for district delegate to said convention shall prior to twenty days before the date fixed for holding such election file his petition with the clerk of the county in which he is a resident. The form of the petition in either case shall be prescribed by the Secretary of State.

5. Any person desiring to be a candidate for delegate‐at‐large shall file with the Secretary of State a petition, which petition must be signed by at least twenty‐five thousand voters who were legally registered for the last general election. Any person desiring to be a candidate for district delegate from a county in which he resides shall file with the clerk of the county a petition, which petition shall be signed by such registered voters of the county equal to at least one‐tenth of the vote cast in the preceding general election for members of the Assembly in such county; provided, that not more than ten thousand signatures shall be required for any district delegate petition.

6. Candidates for the position of either delegate‐at‐large or district delegate may join in a petition to have his or her name bracketed with that of any other candidate or candidates for such position. Delegates‐at‐large who desire to be bracketed may file one petition or one series of petitions aggregating twenty‐five thousand signatures of such registered voters, which petition shall be sufficient. District delegates who desire to be bracketed may file one petition or one series of petitions aggregating the number of such registered voters as hereinbefore indicated, which shall be sufficient. A single petitioner may state opposite his name, or bracketed petitioners may state outside of the bracket whether he or they will vote in the convention for or against ratification of the amendment, and so as not to confuse the voter the candidates so pledging themselves shall state the question on the ballot as follows:

For Repeal of

18th Amendment.

or

Against Repeal

of

18th Amendment.

7. All citizens of the State who are qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly and who are qualified to vote at the primary election shall be qualified to vote in the election in this act authorized and shall be permitted to vote in the election district in which he is legally entitled to vote.

8. Delegates‐at‐large who have petitioned to be bracketed may, in writing, signed by such delegates and addressed to the Secretary of State, petition to be bracketed together, and district delegates who have petitioned to be bracketed together may, in writing, signed by such delegates and addressed to the county clerk, petition to be bracketed together. Where the delegates are so bracketed together a box or a square shall be placed above the name of the first delegate in the bracket and opposite such bracket or square to the right thereof, shall be printed in the following words: “To vote for all of the delegates in the bracket make a cross X or plus + mark in the square to the left.” If a cross or plus mark shall be made in the said square it shall be counted a vote for all of the delegates who are bracketed together, both as to the delegates‐at‐large and the district delegates.

The sixty‐four (64) candidates for delegates‐at‐large receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected delegates‐at‐large, and the number of candidates for district delegates apportioned to each county who receive the highest number of votes in such county shall be declared elected as such district delegates for such county. The elected delegates shall be entitled to be seated in such convention. Certificates of election of delegates‐at‐large shall be issued by the Secretary of State and certificates of election of district delegates shall be issued by the clerk of the county for which such delegates are elected.

9. Each candidate or each group of bracketed candidates for delegates‐at‐large or district delegates to the convention as provided in this act shall be allowed to appoint one challenger in each election district who shall have such powers as are given to challengers under “An act to regulate elections,” approved April eighteenth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, together with any supplements thereto or amendments thereof.

10. The board of county canvassers of each county shall meet on Monday next, after such election, at twelve o’clock noon, at the courthouse of such county, for the purpose of checking the statements of the district boards filed in the office of the county clerk.

11. The county clerk of each county shall certify to the Secretary of State on the form provided by the Secretary of State the number of votes cast for each delegate‐at‐large and each district delegate not later than the second Thursday following the election.

12. The Board of State Canvassers shall meet at Trenton on the second Tuesday next after the day of election, for the purpose of canvassing and estimating the votes cast for each person for whom any votes shall have been cast for delegates‐at‐large, and of determining and declaring the persons who shall have been duly elected as such delegates‐at‐large. The said board shall meet in the chamber of the Senate or some other convenient place at Trenton at the hour of two o’clock in the afternoon.

13. Within twenty days after the holding of the said election, the Governor of this State, by proclamation, shall convene the said convention. The convention shall meet in the city of Trenton and shall organize by the selection of a chairman and secretary, and such other officers as may be necessary, and shall adopt rules governing the deliberations thereof. The convention shall proceed to consider the proposed article of amendment and shall by a vote thereon either approve or reject the same, and the action for the said convention thereon either approve or reject the same, and the action of the said convention thereon shall be valid to all intents and purposed as representing the people of the State of New Jersey. The chairman and the secretary of the convention shall certify the results of the votes of the delegates to the Secretary of State, who shall certify the result of the vote to the Secretary

of State of the United States and to the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States.

14. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 23, 1933

A. Harry Moore Governor

Senate No. 284

Senate,
March 20th 1933
This bill having been three times read in the Senate,
Resolved, That the same do pass. By order of the Senate.
/s/Emerson L. Richards,
President of the Senate.

House of Assembly,
March 20, 1933
This bill having been three times read and compared in the House of Assembly,
Resolved, That the same do pass.
By order of the House of the Assembly.
/s/Charles A. Otto, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Assembly.

[Official Copy Reprint]

Senate, No. 284

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

Introduced March 20, 1933

By Mr. Powell

(For the President)

(Without Reference)

An Act providing for the election of delegates to a convention and providing for the holding of a convention to consider the article of amendment, proposed by the Congress, to the Constitution of the United States designed to repeal the eighteenth article of amendment.

Whereas, The Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two‐thirds of each House concurring therein) did resolved that the following article is hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the Constitution when ratified by conventions in three‐fourths of the several States; and

Whereas, The said proposed amendment reads as follows:

Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof is hereby prohibited.

Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of submission hereof to the States by the Congress; therefore,

Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

1. For the purpose of considering the article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed by the Congress, as recited in the preamble of this act, there shall be held in this State a convention of delegates. Such convention shall consist of two hundred and twenty‐six delegates as follows:

Sixty‐four delegates shall be elected from the State at large, and one hundred and sixty‐two county delegates hereinafter called district delegates shall be elected in the several counties of this State; each county being entitled to delegate representation on the basis of twice as many delegates to represent such county as the said county is entitled to elect members of the Senate and the House of Assembly of this State.

2. Any person having the qualifications which would entitle him to a seat in the House of Assembly may be elected as a delegate‐at‐large or district delegate to said convention.

3. The election for delegates shall be held on the third Tuesday in May, one thousand nine hundred and thirty‐three, coincident with and upon the same day with the holding of the primary election for the general election, and shall in all respects, except as herein otherwise provided, in accord with the provision of an act entitled "An act to regulate elections" (Revision 1930), approved April eighteenth, on thousand nine hundred and thirty, and the acts amendatory and supplemental thereto. A separate ballot printed on bluish tint paper and a separate ballot box shall be provided for the ballots for convention delegates. The form of the ballot shall be uniform in all the counties of the State and the form thereof shall be prescribed by the Secretary of State. The officials now obligated under such "An act to regulate elections" to furnish ballots, tally sheets, ballot boxes and other equipment necessary for the conduct of an election are hereby directed to furnish similar supplies for the election herein directed to be held. The district boards of election that shall conduct the primary election are hereby required to conduct the election for convention delegates and without addi‐

tional compensation. The powers of all other officials given to or directed to be employed by such "An act to regulate elections" are hereby given to such officials.

4. Any person desiring to be a delegate‐at‐large to said convention shall prior to twenty days before the date fixed for holding such election file a petition with the Secretary of State. Any person desiring to be a candidate for district delegate to said convention shall prior to twenty days before the date fixed for holding such election file his petition with the clerk of the county in which he is a resident. The form of the petition in either case shall be prescribed by the Secretary of State.

5. Any person desiring to be a candidate for delegate‐at‐large shall file with the Secretary of State a petition, which petition must be signed by at least twenty‐five thousand voters who were legally registered for the last general election. Any person desiring to be a candidate for district delegate from a county in which he resides shall file with the clerk of the county a petition, which petition shall be signed by such registered voters of the county equal to at least one‐tenth of the vote case in the preceding general election for members of the Assembly in such county; provided, that not more than ten thousand signatures shall be required for any district delegate petition.

6. Candidates for the position of either delegate‐at‐large or district delegate may join in a petition to have his or her name bracketed with that of any other candidate or candidates for such position. Delegates‐at‐large who desire to be bracketed may file one petition or one series of petitions aggregating twenty‐five thousand signatures of such registered voters, which petition shall be sufficient. District delegates who desire to be bracketed may file one petition or one series of petitions aggregating the number of such registered voters as hereinbefore indicated, which shall be sufficient. A single petitioner may state opposite his name, or bracketed petitioners may state outside of the bracket whether he or they will vote in the convention for or against ratification of the amendment, and so as not to confuse the voter the candidates so pledging themselves shall state the question on the ballot as follows:

For Repeal

of

18th Amendment.

or

Against Repeal

of

18th Amendment.

7. All citizens of the State who are qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly and who are qualified to vote at the primary election shall be qualified to vote in the election in this act authorized and shall be permitted to vote in the election district in which he is legally entitled to vote.

8. Delegates‐at‐large who have petitioned to be bracketed may, in writing, signed by such delegates and addressed to the Secretary of State, petition to be bracketed together, and district delegates who have petitioned to be bracketed together may, in writing, signed by such delegates and addressed to the county clerk, petition to be bracketed together. Where the delegates are so bracketed together a box or a square shall be placed above the name of the first delegate in the bracket and opposite such bracket or square to the right thereof, shall be printed in the following words: “To vote for all of the delegates in the bracket make a cross X or plus + mark in the square to the left.” If a cross or plus mark shall be made in the said square it shall be counted a vote for all of the delegates who are bracketed together, both as to the delegates‐at‐large and the district delegates.

The sixty‐four (64) candidates for delegates‐at‐large receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected delegates‐at‐large, and the number of candidates for district delegates apportioned to each county who receive the highest number of votes in such county shall be declared elected as such district delegates for such county. The elected delegates shall be entitled to be seated in such convention. Certificates of election of delegates‐at‐large shall be issued by the Secretary of State and certificates of election of district delegates shall be issued by the clerk of the county for which such delegates are elected.

9. Each candidate or each group of bracketed candidates for delegates‐at‐large or district delegates to the convention as provided in this act shall be allowed to appoint one challenger in each election district who shall have such powers as are given to challengers under “An act to regulate elections,” approved April eighteenth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, together with any supplements thereto or amendments thereof.

10. The board of county canvassers of each county shall meet on Monday next, after such election, at twelve o’clock noon, at the courthouse of such county, for the purpose of checking the statements of the district boards filed in the office of the county clerk.

11. The county clerk of each county shall certify to the Secretary of State on the form provided by the Secretary of State the number of votes cast for each delegate‐at‐large and each district delegate not later than the second Thursday following the election.

12. The Board of State Canvassers shall meet at Trenton on the second Tuesday next after the day of election, for the purpose of canvassing and estimating the votes cast for each person for whom any votes shall have been cast for delegates‐at‐large, and of determining and declaring the persons who shall have been duly elected as such delegates‐at‐large. The said board shall meet in the chamber of the Senate or some other convenient place at Trenton at the hour of two o’clock in the afternoon.

13. Within twenty days after the holding of the said election, the Governor of this State, by proclamation, shall convene the said convention. The convention shall meet in the city of Trenton and shall organize by the selection of a chairman and secretary, and such other officers as may be necessary, and shall adopt rules governing the deliberations thereof. The convention shall proceed to consider the proposed article of amendment and shall by a vote thereon either approve or reject the same, and the action for the said convention thereon either approve or reject the same, and the action of the said convention thereon shall be valid to all intents and purposed as representing the people of the State of New Jersey. The chairman and the secretary of the convention shall certify the results of the votes of the delegates to the Secretary of State, who shall certify the result of the vote to the Secretary

of State of the United States and to the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States.

14. This act shall take effect immediately.

[Second Official Copy Reprint]

Senate, No. 284

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

Introduced March 20, 1933

By Mr. Powell

(For the President)

(Without Reference)

An Act providing for the election of delegates to a convention and providing for the holding of a convention to consider the article of amendment, proposed by the Congress, to the Constitution of the United States designed to repeal the eighteenth article of amendment.

Whereas, The Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two‐thirds of each House concurring therein) did resolved that the following article is hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the Constitution when ratified by conventions in three‐fourths of the several States; and

Whereas, The said proposed amendment reads as follows:

Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof is hereby prohibited.

Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of submission hereof to the States by the Congress; therefore,

Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

1. For the purpose of considering the article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed by the Congress, as recited in the preamble of this act, there shall be held in this State a convention of delegates. Such convention shall consist of two hundred and twenty‐six delegates as follows:

Sixty‐four delegates shall be elected from the State at large, and one hundred and sixty‐two county delegates hereinafter called district delegates shall be elected in the several counties of this State; each county being entitled to delegate representation on the basis of twice as many delegates to represent such county as the said county is entitled to elect members of the Senate and the House of Assembly of this State.

2. Any person having the qualifications which would entitle him to a seat in the House of Assembly may be elected as a delegate‐at‐large or district delegate to said convention.

3. The election for delegates shall be held on the third Tuesday in May, one thousand nine hundred and thirty‐three, coincident with and upon the same day with the holding of the primary election for the general election, and shall in all respects, except as herein otherwise provided, in accord with the provision of an act entitled "An act to regulate elections" (Revision 1930), approved April eighteenth, on thousand nine hundred and thirty, and the acts amendatory and supplemental thereto. A separate ballot printed on bluish tint paper and a separate ballot box shall be provided for the ballots for convention delegates. The form of the ballot shall be uniform in all the counties of the State and the form thereof shall be prescribed by the Secretary of State. The officials now obligated under such "An act to regulate elections" to furnish ballots, tally sheets, ballot boxes and other equipment necessary for

the conduct of an election are hereby directed to furnish similar supplies for the election herein directed to be held. The district boards of election that shall conduct the primary election are hereby required to conduct the election for convention delegates and without addi‐

tional compensation. The powers of all other officials given to or directed to be employed by such "An act to regulate elections" are hereby given to such officials.

4. Any person desiring to be a delegate‐at‐large to said convention shall prior to twenty days before the date fixed for holding such election file a petition with the Secretary of State. Any person desiring to be a candidate for district delegate to said convention shall prior to twenty days before the date fixed for holding such election file his petition with the clerk of the county in which he is a resident. The form of the petition in either case shall be prescribed by the Secretary of State.

5. Any person desiring to be a candidate for delegate‐at‐large shall file with the Secretary of State a petition, which petition must be signed by at least twenty‐five thousand voters who were legally registered for the last general election. Any person desiring to be a candidate for district delegate from a county in which he resides shall file with the clerk of the county a petition, which petition shall be signed by such registered voters of the county equal to at least one‐tenth of the vote case in the preceding general election for members of the Assembly in such county; provided, that not more than ten thousand signatures shall be required for any district delegate petition.

6. Candidates for the position of either delegate‐at‐large or district delegate may join in a petition to have his or her name bracketed with that of any other candidate or candidates for such position. Delegates‐at‐large who desire to be bracketed may file one petition or one series of petitions aggregating twenty‐five thousand signatures of such registered voters, which petition shall be sufficient. District delegates who desire to be bracketed may file one petition or one series of petitions aggregating the number of such registered voters as hereinbefore indicated, which shall be sufficient. A single petitioner may state opposite his name, or bracketed petitioners may state outside of the bracket whether he or they will vote in the convention for or against ratification of the amendment, and so as not to confuse the voter the candidates so pledging themselves shall state the question on the ballot as follows:

For Repeal

of

18th Amendment.

or

Against Repeal

of

18th Amendment.

7. All citizens of the State who are qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly and who are qualified to vote at the primary election shall be qualified to vote in the election in this act authorized and shall be permitted to vote in the election district in which he is legally entitled to vote.

8. Delegates‐at‐large who have petitioned to be bracketed may, in writing, signed by such delegates and addressed to the Secretary of State, petition to be bracketed together, and district delegates who have petitioned to be bracketed together may, in writing, signed by such delegates and addressed to the county clerk, petition to be bracketed together. Where the delegates are so bracketed together a box or a square shall be placed above the name of the first delegate in the bracket and opposite such bracket or square to the right thereof, shall be printed in the following words: “To vote for all of the delegates in the bracket make a cross X or plus + mark in the square to the left.” If a cross or plus mark shall be made in the said square it shall be counted a vote for all of the delegates who are bracketed together, both as to the delegates‐at‐large and the district delegates.

The sixty‐four (64) candidates for delegates‐at‐large receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected delegates‐at‐large, and the number of candidates for district delegates apportioned to each county who receive the highest number of votes in such county shall be declared elected as such district delegates for such county. The elected delegates shall be entitled to be seated in such convention. Certificates of election of delegates‐at‐large shall be issued by the Secretary of State and certificates of election of district delegates shall be issued by the clerk of the county for which such delegates are elected.

9. Each candidate or each group of bracketed candidates for delegates‐at‐large or district delegates to the convention as provided in this act shall be allowed to appoint one challenger in each election district who shall have such powers as are given to challengers under “An act to regulate elections,” approved April eighteenth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, together with any supplements thereto or amendments thereof.

10. The board of county canvassers of each county shall meet on Monday next, after such election, at twelve o’clock noon, at the courthouse of such county, for the purpose of checking the statements of the district boards filed in the office of the county clerk.

11. The county clerk of each county shall certify to the Secretary of State on the form provided by the Secretary of State the number of votes cast for each delegate‐at‐large and each district delegate not later than the second Thursday following the election.

12. The Board of State Canvassers shall meet at Trenton on the second Tuesday next after the day of election, for the purpose of canvassing and estimating the votes cast for each person for whom any votes shall have been cast for delegates‐at‐large, and of determining and declaring the persons who shall have been duly elected as such delegates‐at‐large. The said board shall meet in the chamber of the Senate or some other convenient place at Trenton at the hour of two o’clock in the afternoon.

13. Within twenty days after the holding of the said election, the Governor of this State, by proclamation, shall convene the said convention. The convention shall meet in the city of Trenton and shall organize by the selection of a chairman and secretary, and such other officers as may be necessary, and shall adopt rules governing the deliberations thereof. The convention shall proceed to consider the proposed article of amendment and shall by a vote thereon either approve or reject the same, and the action for the said convention thereon either approve or reject the same, and the action of the said convention thereon shall be valid to all intents and purposed as representing the people of the State of New Jersey. The chairman and the secretary of the convention shall certify the results of the votes of the delegates to the Secretary of State, who shall certify the result of the vote to the Secretary

of State of the United States and to the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States.

14. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chapter 73

Senate, No. 284

As Act providing for the election of delegates to a convention and providing for the holding of a convention to consider the article of amendment, proposed by the Congress, to the Constitution of the United States designed to repeal ht eighteenth amendment.

Filed March 2, 1933

Thomas A. Mathis, Secretary of State

I certify that this bill originated in the Senate

/s/ Oliver F. Van Camp

Secretary of the Senate

State of New Jersey

Department of State

I, Thomas A. Mathis, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a correct statemen of the determination of the Board of State Canvassers, relative to an election held in the State of New Jersey on the sixteenth day of May 1933, for the election of sixty-four Delegates at Large to the State Convention, to consider the Article of Amendment, proposed by the Congress, to the Constitution of the United States, designed to repeal the Eighteenth Article of Amendment. 

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and  affixed my Official Seal, at Trenton, the first day of June  1933.

Thomas A. Mathis,

Secretary of State.

For Repeal of the 18th Amendment

A Statement of the Result of the District Delegates Election Held on the 16th Day of May, 1933, to Elect District Delegates to the State Convention.

Atlantic Co.
Harry Hackney
Alfred J. Kurtz
Walter Jeffries
Mamie R. Stone
Daniel H.V. Bell
Irving I. Jacobs
Bergen Co.
Ernest Alberque
Gen. Charles Burrows
Charles Carella
Emily Carleton
Margaret Hofener
Lillian A. Mathis
Doris M. Mehrhof
Blanche Saffin
Oliver B. Surpless
Bertha B. Van Stone
Donald Waesche
P. William Wiegers
Burlington Co.
Richard P. Hughes
Elizabeth R. Cowperthwait
Alma M. Evans
Walter S. Marter
Camden Co.
C. Richard Allen
Gertrude Dugan
Samuel T. French
Anthony F. Gorham
C. Mae Marsh
Albert S. Marvel, Jr.


Frank O. Stem
Joseph A. Varbalow
Cape May Co.
D. Miles Rigor
Charles T. Campbell
Samuel A. Lanning
G. Fred Cronecker
Cumberland Co.
G.A. McKeen
Jonathan W. Kirchhoff, Sr.
J. Peter Davidow

Essex Co.
Robert W. Kean
Mrs. William A. Barstow
Robert A. Drysdale
George M. Rogers
William H. Tobin, Jr.
Anastasia Royce
James A. Whelan
Mrs. Henry Young, Jr.
William H. Seely
Louis V. Aronson
Pelligrino Pellecchia
Alfred G. Cockefair
Frederic B. Kremer
George V. McDonough
Elizabeth F. Mateer
William L. Fox
William A. Rucki
Julia Blewitt
John F. Monahan


Edward D. Balentine, Jr.
Helen E. Caldwell
William C. Fielder
Wm. Ricigliano
Joseph Kraemer
Alice R. Pickard
William J. Ryan
Gloucester Co.
Godfrey V. Baker
J. Herbert Sickler
Andrew J. Trucksees
Walter C. Wilkins, Jr.
Hudson Co.
Charles L. Munch
Bert Daly
William J. McGovern
Harry J. Thourot
Julius L. Reich
John W. Sweeney
Daniel Herrmann
Frederick J. Gassert
Herman C. Lange
May M. Carty
Jerome J. Brady
Charles J. Murphy
Christian H. Ritter
James A. Templton
Benjamin Zelinski
George M. Eichler
Andrew O. Wittreich
William B. Ross
John F. Wilkens


John Beier Theurer
Carl Bausewein
John Preiss
Hunterdon Co.
Warren G. Thompson
Joseph Flynn
William H. Butler

Mercer Co.
Joseph M. Carson
Robert M. Fielder
Albert F. Giese
W. Finley Jones
George B. LaBarre
Dayton D. McKean
Samuel J. Surtees
Bernard J. Walsh
Middlesex Co.
Frederic M. P. Pearse
Joseph A. Hermann
John P. Kirkpatrick
Henry Haywood
Elovine Carpender
Robert L. McKiernan
Mathilda H. Baldwin
William Hamilton
Monmouth Co.
Genevieve Tatum
Edward T. Rooney
John W. Flock
Amory L. Haskell
William H.R. White


Edwin G. Bruns, Sr.
Morris Co.
Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen
Frank Waters
Grace Fanshawe Allen
Frank C. Scerbo
Emil G. Kattermann
William A. Hegarty
Ocean Co.
Anthony E. Wickham
Morton Mencher
Arthur Gorman Gallagher
Caroline Johnson
Passaic Co.
Nicholas F. Cimmino
Frank A. McBride
Dr. Lester F. Meloney
William A. Merz
Manuel N. Mirsky
Thomas F. Morgan
Charles E. Stiles
John F. Streckfuss
George J. Tinney
Andrew Van Riper
Salem Co.
Lawton W. Witt
Walter I. Bacon
Charles L. Smith
Harry H. Peacock
Somerset Co.
William A. Coddington
John Wyckoff Mettler


Milton S. Dillon
Catesby L. Jones
Sussex Co.
William A. Dolan
Lewis Van Blarcom
Samuel T. Munson
Alfred B. Littell
Union Co.
John F. Kenah
Wesley A. Stanger
Edward Nugent
Virginia B. Stillman
Albert H. Atterbury
Jules Verner
Sarah V. Ackerman
Allan B. Wallace
Francis J. Regula
Harry I. Luftman
Warren Co.
John H. Pursel
Daniel B. McIntosh
Charles A. Dahlke
Charles B. Brady

were duly elected District Delegates to the State Convention for Repeal of the 18th Amendment.

I DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that the foregoing is a full, true and correct statement of the results of the District Delegates Election above mentioned as the same is exhibited by the statement produced and laid before the Secretary of State according to law, and the same exhibits the total number of persons entitled to vote at the Dstrict Delegates Election, the whole number of ballots cast of the Counties, respectively, in the State, and of the ballots rejected, the name of each person for whom any vote or votes were given, the number of votes given for each in each District Delegate to the State Convention, as they appear by the statements so produced and laid before the Secretary of State.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty‐ninth day of May, 1933.

Against Repeal of the 18th Amendment

A Statement of the Result of the District Delegates Election Held the 16th Day of May, 1933, to Elect District Delegates to the State Convention

Atlantic Co.

Bergen Co.

Burlington Co.

Camden Co.

Cape May Co.

Cumberland Co.
Samuel Iredell

Essex Co.

Gloucester Co.

Hudson Co.

Hunterdon Co.
W. Egbert Thomas

Mercer Co.

Middlesex Co.

Monmouth Co.

Morris Co.

Ocean Co.

Passaic Co.

Salem Co.

Somerset Co.

Sussex Co.

Union Co.

Warren Co.

were duly elected District Delegates to the State Convention for Repeal of the 18th Amendment.

I DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that the foregoing is a full, true and correct statement of the results of the District Delegates Election above mentioned as the same is exhibited by the statement produced and laid before the Secretary of State according to law, and the same exhibits the total number of persons entitled to vote at the Dstrict Delegates Election, the whole number of ballots cast of the Counties, respectively, in the State, and of the ballots rejected, the name of each person for whom any vote or votes were given, the number of votes given for each in each District Delegate to the State Convention, as they appear by the statements so produced and laid before the Secretary of State.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty‐ninth day of May, 1933.

In accordance with the proclamation of His Excellency, The Governor, A. Harry Moore, the Convention met in the Memorial Building, Stacy Park, City of Trenton, on Thursday, the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and [thirty] three, at eleven o’clock A.M., (Eastern Standard Time).

The Convention was called to order by His Excellency, A. Harry Moore, Governor of the State of New Jersey.

The call of the Convention was read by the Honorable Thomas A. Mathis, Secretary of State, followed by the calling of the roll of delegates.

The Convention then proceeded to the election of a Permanent Chairman. The Honorable Emerson L. Richards, President of the Senate of the State of New Jersey was unanimously chosen Chairman of the Convention.

On taking the Chair Mr. Richards addressed the Convention as follows: “Ladies and Gentlemen of the Convention: —

When we have made a mistake the American people are big enough to admit it. Today we meet to lend New Jersey’s sanction to the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. After fifteen years

of trial we have concluded almost unanimously that laws will not make us a temperate people. We are about to begin again.

“It is significant that in righting a wrong that we have done to our government and ourselves we should return to this ancient form of popular expression‐‐ the convention. The structure of our government was wrought in the fires of debate in the colonial convention. We return to the convention to expunge from our Constitution a political and moral heresy.

“Our Constitution is only a power of attorney, signed by the people, giving to their representatives limited powers. Laws governing the people have no place in such a document. If, for no other reason, the Eighteenth Amendment should never have been written into our Constitution. Today, not by revolution‐‐ not by bloody strife, but by a determined, clear‐ thinking and resolved citizenry we strike from that constitution the dangerous adventure which has so nearly wrecked our ship of state.

“It is well that we act in the convention form. Representative councils by whatever name they are called ‐‐ legislatures, congresses or Parliament ‐‐ are unpopular in the eyes of the peoples of the world. Dictatorships, with their accompanying surrender of legislative power have momentarily captured the popular imagination. It is good, then, for us to remember that in the midst of a multitude of governmental experiments we still possess and exercise the greatest weapon for the correction of the evils of government‐‐ the constitutional convention.

“It is a great honor to preside over this convention. The delegates here assembled represent the leadership, the intellect and the courage of two great political parties joined together in a common cause. The promotion of temperance and the sane regulation of the use of beverages containing alcohol is not a partisan question.

“The recent action of our sister states indicates that within a very brief time the

Eighteenth Amendment will have then been repealed. We will then face an entirely new set of conditions.

“The evils brought about by the Eighteenth Amendment were too many to recite here ‐‐ its revival of intemperance ‐‐ the spread of the use of liquor among people who had heretofore been abstainers ‐‐ the change in the viewpoint of society toward the consumption of liquor ‐‐ the rise of the racketeer ‐‐ inevitable corruption of governmental functions ‐‐ the loss of prestige of the Federal Government are but some of the grevious [sic] damages done to ourselves. Now, the course of destruction may be arrested, but there remains the greater task of reconstruction.

“We have passed through a moral civil war. We have yet to reconcile the participants, bind up the wounds of the contestants, restore the damage to our institutions, and plan for a settled peace.

“The experience of the past will be of slight advantage to us now. The world has moved forward in these fifteen years. The

exterior of our civilization has been molded on modernistic lines. The change in transportation with the universal use of the automobile, the participation of women in those forms of social recreation formerly reserved for men, the changed viewpoint concerning the consumption of alcoholic beverages will all operate to surround the dispensation of such beverages with an entirely different atmosphere.

“We have talked about the revival of the old‐time saloon. After nearly two months of test we realize that beer did not bring back the saloon, but that it is on the other hand promoting temperance. The modern speakeasy is already deserted. It will not long survive. Undoubtedly, other unexpected and surprising changes in our preconceived notion of how to deal with the new condition awaits us. Careful planning and mutual counsel will be necessary for the adequate solution of the new problem. One mistake we will not make ‐‐ the fanaticism of the drys must not be answered by a counter intolerance of the wets.

“Temperance in thought and deed must be our watchword. Respect for the opinion and rights of the minority must be observed. The Eighteenth Amendment failed because it did not respect the principle that morality is not a matter of law, but a matter of eternal justice.

“Before that seat of judgment we all stand to be judged by the way we have used this vindication of the right of the people to govern themselves.”

The Convention then proceeded to the election of a Permanent Secretary.

Mr. Oliver F. Van Camp, Secretary of the Senate of New Jersey, was unanimously chosen Secretary.

The Chairman named the following committees:

COMMITTEE ON RULES
Mary T. Norton
Hamilton F. Kean
John J. Toohey, Jr.
Mary Sayles Moore
Charles V. Duffy
Aletta H. K. Stout
Alice R. Pickard

COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS
Walter E. Edge
W. Warren Barbour
John D. Hinchliffe
David Wilentz
Daniel E. Pomeroy
Grace Fanshaw Allen
Louis V. Aronson

COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS
Arthur Foran
Thomas N. McCarter
William H. J. Ely
Joseph G. Wolber
Lewis Ballantyne
Edward M. Waldron
May M. Carty
George B. LaBarre
P. H. V. Frelinghuysen
F. A. McBride
Oscar L. Auf der Heide
Jesse Salmon

Honorable Mary T. Norton, Chairman of the Committee on Rules, moved that the rules of the House of Assembly of the State of New Jersey for 1933 be adopted as the rules of this Convention.

Which motion was adopted.

Honorable Walter E. Edge, Chairman of the Committee on Credentials, reported all delegates duly elected and that there were no contests.

Arthur Foran, Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, offered the following resolution and moved its adoption:

“Whereas, the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two‐thirds of each House concurring therein) did resolve that the following article is hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the Constitution when ratified by convention in three‐fourths of the several States; and,

“Whereas, the said proposed amendment reads as follows:

“Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

“Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof is hereby prohibited.

“Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by convention in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of submission hereof to the States by the Congress; and,

“Whereas, there was duly transmitted to the Legislature of this State the said article of amendment proposed by the Congress to the Constitution of the United States; and,

“Whereas, the Legislature of this State, pursuant to law, did enact a statute entitled, “An act providing for the election of delegates to a convention and providing for the holding of a convention to consider the article of amendment, proposed by the Congress, to the Constitution of the United States designed to repeal the eighteenth article of amendment,” which said act having passed both Houses of the Legislature, was signed by the Governor of this State on March twenty‐third, one thousand nine hundred and thirty‐three and constitutes Chapter seventy‐three of the Laws of New Jersey for the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty‐three; and,

“Whereas, pursuant to the provisions of said act of the Legislature an election for the selection of delegates to the said convention was held in this State on May sixteenth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty‐three, at which said election delegates were chosen in accordance with the provisions of said statute; and,

“Whereas, on May twenty‐second, one thousand nine hundred and thirty‐three, His Excellency, A. Harry Moore, Governor of the State of New Jersey, pursuant to the provisions of said act of the Legislature did issue his said proclamation for the holding of the said convention, which said proclamation reads as follows:

“Whereas, pursuant to Chapter 73 of the Laws of 1933, an election was held on the sixteenth day of May, 1933, for the election of delegates to the convention to consider the Article of Amendment proposed by the Congress to the Constitution of the United States, designed to repeal the Eighteenth Article of Amendment; and,

“Whereas, Section 13 of said act requires the Governor of this State, within twenty days after the holding of said election, by proclamation, to convene the said convention,

“Therefore, I, A. HARRY MOORE, Governor of the State of New Jersey, pursuant to the power and authority vested in me by said act of the Legislature do hereby convene the said convention to meet in the Memorial Building, Stacy Park, in the City of Trenton, on Thursday, the first day of June, next, at the hour of eleven O’clock in the forenoon of said day (Eastern Standard Time).

“Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State of New Jersey, this twenty‐second day of May, in the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty‐three, and in the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fifty‐seventh.

THOMAS A. MATHIS,
Secretary of State

A. HARRY MOORE,
Governor

“Whereas, pursuant to the said proclamation of His Excellency, the Governor, the said convention did meet at the time and place therein fixed and having organized by the election of a chairman and secretary and having adopted rules governing its deliberations did proceed to consider the proposed article of amendment; now, therefore,

“BE IT RESOLVED, by this convention of delegates representing the people of the State of New Jersey, duly assembled pursuant to law, that we do approve and ratify the proposed article of amendment proposed by the Congress to the Constitution of the United States designed to repeal the Eighteenth Article of Amendment, which said amendment reads as follows:

“WHEREAS, The Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two‐thirds of each House concurring therein) did resolve that the following article is hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the Constitution when ratified by conventions in three‐fourths of the several States; and

“WHEREAS, The said proposed amendment reads as follows:

“Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

“Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof is hereby prohibited.

“Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of submission hereof to the States by the Congress;

“And further the action of this convention in approving and ratifying the said proposed amendment is valid to all intents and purposes as representing

the people of the State of New Jersey; and

“BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Chairman and Secretary of this convention shall certify the result of the votes of the delegates to the Secretary of State of this State; and

“BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State of this State shall certify the result of this vote to the Secretary of State of the United States and to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States.

(Signed) Emerson Richards,
Chairman

ATTEST:
(Signed) Oliver F. Van Camp,
Secretary.”

Under the direction of the Chairman, the Secretary called the roll of delegates. There being recorded 202 in the affirmative and two in the negative, the resolution was declared adopted.

The Chairman presented His Excellency, A. Harry Moore, Governor of the State of New Jersey, who addressed the Convention.

The Chairman presented The Honorable Edward C. Stokes, former Governor of the State of New Jersey, who addressed the Convention.

The Chair also presented The Honorable Mary T. Norton, Congresswoman from New Jersey, the Honorable Warren Barbour, Junior United States Senator from

New Jersey, the Honorable Hamilton F. Kean, Senior United States Senator from New Jersey, and the Honorable Walter E. Edge, former Governor of the State of New Jersey, former United States Senator from New Jersey, and former United States Ambassador to France, who addressed the Convention.

On motion of Arthur Foran, one of the delegates to the Convention, the Convention adjourned sine die.

/s/ Oliver F. Van Camp
Oliver F. Van Camp, Secretary.

* * * *

ROLL CALL

ROLL CALL – (Continued)

ROLL CALL – (Continued)

TO ADOPT RESOLUTION

TO ADOPT RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, the Legislature of this State, pursuant to law, did enact a statute entitled, “An Act providing for the election of delegates to a convention and providing for the holding of a convention to consider the article of amendment, proposed by the Congress, to the Constitution of the United States designed to repeal the eighteenth article of amendment,” which said act having passed both houses of the Legislature, was signed by the Governor of this State on March twenty‐third, one thousand nine hundred and thirty‐three and constitutes Chapter seventy‐three of the Laws of New Jersey for the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty‐three; and,

WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions of said act of the Legislature an election for the selection of delegates to the said convention was held in this State on May sixteenth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty‐three, at which said election delegates were chosen in accordance with the provisions of said statute; and,

WHEREAS, on May twenty‐second, one thousand nine hundred and thirty‐three, His Excellency,

A. Harry Moore, Governor of the State of New Jersey, pursuant to the provisions of said act of the Legislature did issue his said proclamation for the holding of the said convention, which said proclamation reads as follows:

“WHEREAS, pursuant to Chapter 73 of the Laws of 1933, an election was held on the sixteenth day of May, 1933, for the election of delegates to the convention to consider the Article of Amendment

proposed by the Congress to the Constitution of the United States, designed to repeal the Eighteenth Article of Amendment; and,

WHEREAS, Section 13 of said act requires the Governor of this State, within twenty days after the holding of said election, by proclamation, to convene the said convention,

THEREFORE, I, A. HARRY MOORE, Governor of the State of New Jersey, pursuant to the power and authority vested in me by said act of the Legislature do hereby convene the said convention to meet in the Memorial Building, Stacy Park, in the City of Trenton, on Thursday, the first day of June, next, at the hour of eleven o’clock in the forenoon of said day (Eastern Standard Time).

Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State of New Jersey, this twenty‐second day of May, in the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty‐three, and in the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fifty‐seventh.

A. HARRY MOORE,
Governor.

Thomas A. Mathis,
Secretary of State.

WHEREAS, pursuant to the said proclamation of his Excellency, the Governor, the said convention did meet at the time and place therein fixed and having organized by the selection of a chairman and secretary and having adopted rules governing its deliberations did proceed to consider the proposed article of amendment; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by this convention of delegates representing the people of the State of New Jersey, duly assembled pursuant to law, that we do approve and ratify the proposed article of amendment proposed by the Congress to the Constitution of the United States designed to repeal the Eighteenth Article of Amendment, which said amendment reads as follows:

“WHEREAS, The Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two‐thirds of each House concurring therein) did resolve that the following article is hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the Constitution when ratified by conventions in three‐fourths of the several States; and

WHEREAS, The said proposed amendment reads as follows:

Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof is hereby prohibited.

Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution,

within seven years from the date of submission hereof to the States by the Congress;” and further the action of this convention in approving and ratifying the said proposed amendment is valid to all intents and purposes as representing the people of the State of New Jersey; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the chairman and secretary of this convention shall certify the result of the votes of the delegates to the Secretary of State of this State; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Secretary of State of this State shall certify the result of this vote to the Secretary of State of the United States and to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States.

/s/ Emerson Richards
Chairman.

ATTEST:
/s/ Oliver F. Van Camp
Secretary.