STATE OF NEW JERSEY CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1947
COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS, PRIVILEGES, AMENDMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Tuesday, July 8, 1947 (Afternoon session)
(The session began at 1:30 P. M.)
The fifth meeting of the Committee on Rights, Privileges, Amendments and Miscellaneous Provisions reconvened at 1:30 P. M. in the Convention Hall, Rutgers University Gymnasium, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
PRESENT: Carey, Delaney, Ferry, Glass, Katzenbach, Park, Pursel, Randolph, Schenk, Stanger and Taylor.
Chairman John F. Schenk presided.
CHAIRMAN JOHN F. SCHENK: This is a public hearing of the Committee on Rights, Privileges, Amendments and Miscellaneous Provisions and we will take testimony and hear interested people on Article I, Rights and Privileges. At this time, I wish to call on Mrs. Frank Fobert. Mrs. Fobert is appearing for the League of Women Voters.
MRS. FRANK FOBERT: Mr. Schenk and members of the Committee:
The League of Women Voters of New Jersey feels that Article I, Rights and Privileges, is the strongest part of the 1844 Constitution. We suggest only two changes and three additions. These were submitted to you, members of the Committee, in printed form, before the Convention opened, in a book with a gray cover.1 These excerpts from the League of Women Voter’s “Constitutional Changes” appear in the Appendix to these Committee Proceedings. We wish to amplify today only on numbers 2 and 3, on pages 1 and 2, respectively, and I have extra copies of these. I’ll hand them around just in case you don’t have your book here.
The 1844 Constitution added a number of paragraphs to the Bill of Rights not contained in the 1776 Constitution. These were not new rights; the Convention added the practice and customs of the preceding years, writing them in in explicit terms. So we urge two additions which are not new but which have grown out of the practice of our preceding years. The first, number 2, page 1, reads:
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