. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . of the Su-preme Court and the so-called lay judges. Tothe masses the right of suffrage was secured. Un-der the new organic law the last cord which boundmen to the doctrine of the political superiority ofthe landed proprietor was cut. New Jerseyadopted the principle that every male citizen ofthe United States of the age of twenty-one years,who shall have been a resident of the State oneyear, and of the county in which he claimed hisvote five months, next before election, should beentitled to vote for all elective officers.
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . of the Su-preme Court and the so-called lay judges. Tothe masses the right of suffrage was secured. Un-der the new organic law the last cord which boundmen to the doctrine of the political superiority ofthe landed proprietor was cut. New Jerseyadopted the principle that every male citizen ofthe United States of the age of twenty-one years,who shall have been a resident of the State oneyear, and of the county in which he claimed hisvote five months, next before election, should beentitled to vote for all elective officers. Those towhom the right of suffrage was denied were pau-pers, idiots, insane persons, and unpardoned per-sons convicted of a crime which would excludethem from being witnesses, together with thosebarred by statute, after conviction for bribery. In spite of the drastic changes, some of thespirit if not the letter of the constitution of 177Gremained. With the governor still rested thepower of appointing the State judiciary, aswell as many of the State officials, subject. t/ihqlu&u ttcta-frurUjcriL Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck, , president ofRutgers College 1840-60; b. Kingston, N. Y., Nov.,1791; grad. Yale College 1810; admitted to New Y:>rkbar 1813; member of Congress 1826: eminent consti-tutional lawyer ; founder and president Ulster County(N. Y.) Historical Society; i. Kingston, N. Y., , 1879. 286 NEW JERSEY AS A COL to confirmation by the Senate, and also theprosecutor of the pleas (district attorney) of thevarious counties. Since the days of Queen Annethis practice had marked the policy of the colonyand the State, as had been the doctrine of an ap-pointive judiciary. New Jersey has never had anelective judiciary, except justices of the peace, norhave the people ever voted for State officials orfor county officers, except sheriffs, clerks (reg-isters of deeds), surrogates (registers of wills),coroners, and members of the boards of chosenfreeholders (county commissi
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