SERIES FOREWORD by Lawrence Friedman
FOREWORD by Richard J. Hughes
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
INTRODUCTION
PART I. THE CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF NEW JERSEY
PART II. NEW JERSEY CONSTITUTION AND COMMENTARY
Article I: Rights and Privileges
Article II: Elections and Suffrage
Article III: Distribution of the Powers of Government
Article IV: Legislative
Article V: Executive
Article VI: Judicial
Article VII. Public Officers and Employees
Article VIII. Taxation and Finance
Article IX. Amendments
Article X: General Provisions
Article XI: Schedule
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
TABLE OF CASES
INDEX
Robert F. Williams is Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers
University School of Law, Camden, and Associate Director of the
Center for State Constitutional Studies. He holds a B.A. from
Florida State, a J.D. from the University of Florida, and LL.M.
degrees from New York University School of Law and Columbia Law
School. Professor Williams served as a legislative assistant during
the 1967 Special Constitutional Revision session of the Florida
Legislature and
represented clients before the 1978 Florida Constitution Revision
Commission.
Professor Williams teaches Civil Procedure, State Constitutional
Law and Statutory Interpretation at Rutgers Law School in Camden,
in addition to writing and practicing in those areas. He is the
author of The Law of American State Constitutions (Oxford Univ.
Press 2009); State Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials (4th
ed., Lexis Law Publishers 2006); Drafting State Constitutions,
Revisions and Amendments (2006) (with Frank P. Grad); and numerous
journal articles
about state constitutional law and legislation. He is also
co-author (with Hetzel and Libonati) of Legislative Law and
Statutory Interpretation (4th ed., Lexis Law Publishers, 2008).
Williams and Chen have provided a clear, compact, and comprehensive
guide to our state constitution and its interesting history.
Nowhere else would you be able to find so much packaged so
efficiently. Practitioners will benefit from its stories and its
insights and as well as from its legal analysis.
*Hon. Peter A. Buchsbaum, the State Bar Association magazine*
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