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Amendment VII
Document 5
New Jersey Constitution of 1776, ART. 22
Thorpe 5:2598XXII. That the common law of England, as well as so much of the statute law, as have been heretofore practised in this Colony, shall still remain in force, until they shall be altered by a future law of the Legislature; such parts only excepted, as are repugnant to the rights and privileges contained in this Charter; and that the inestimable right of trial by jury shall remain confirmed as a part of the law of this Colony, without repeal, forever.
The Founders' Constitution
Volume 5, Amendment VII, Document 5
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendVIIs5.html
The University of Chicago Press
Thorpe, Francis Newton, ed. The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America. 7 vols. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1909.
