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In 1844, New Jersey wrote a new Constitution which explicitly denied women and African Americans the right to vote. [ 32 ] On June 18, 1844, an attempt to include women's suffrage was asked by John C. Ten Eyck, who had a petition from Burlington. [ 33 ] The petition was read and not acted on.
LGBT individuals in New Jersey enjoy strong protections from discrimination, and have had the same marriage rights as heterosexual people since October 21, 2013. Since the late 1960s, state-sanctioned discrimination against LGBTQ people has become increasingly less acceptable. A series of court decisions have enlarged the areas of LGBT rights.
1915. May 6: A women's suffrage bill passes and is ready to go out to voter referendum. [66] August 7: The Suffrage Torch is handed to New Jersey activists on the tugboat, A.W. Smith, in the middle of the Hudson River. [67] August 13: NJWSA hosts an event in Orange to celebrate Stone and her tax protest.
The newly formed State of New Jersey elected William Livingston as its first governor on August 31, 1776—a position he would be reelected to until his death in 1790. [5] [6] While New Jersey was in a state of war, delegates of the Provincial Congress drafted the first constitution in a span of five days and ratified it only two days later.
Giacchino "Jack" Michael Ciattarelli (/ tʃɪtəˈrɛli / chi-tə-RELL-ee; born December 12, 1961) [1][2] is an American politician and businessman. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2011 to 2018, representing the 16th legislative district. He was also the Republican nominee in the 2021 New ...
The right to life is the belief that a human (or other animal) has the right to live and, in particular, should not be killed by another entity. The concept of a right to life arises in debates on issues including: capital punishment, with some people seeing it as immoral; abortion, with some considering the killing of a human embryo or fetus immoral; euthanasia, in which the decision to end ...
Office of War Information war poster (1941–1945). " Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness " is a well-known phrase from the United States Declaration of Independence. [1] The phrase gives three examples of the unalienable rights which the Declaration says have been given to all humans by their Creator, and which governments are created ...
Disney said Mr Piccolo had waived his right to a jury trial when he signed up to a free trial of Disney+ in 2019. Disney later withdrew its claim to arbitration and opted to proceed with a jury ...