Adopted October 1776 and amended in September 1777 to substitute the word ‘colony’ for ‘state’, the New Jersey state constitution consisted of a governor elected by two legislative bodies, the Legislative Council and the General Assembly. Eligibility for these two bodies depended on wealth, with the former requiring one-thousand pounds and the latter requiring five hundred pounds “proclamation money, of real and personal estate.” While age, residency, and property requirements restricted voting rights, New Jersey was the only one of the thirteen original states not to exclude suffrage based on race or gender.