In the aftermath of the ugly, and fatal, racial violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, last August at the “Unite the Right” rally, Georgetown Law School’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection launched a research project on state laws that could be invoked to avoid similar conflicts. In its just-released “Prohibiting Private Armies at Public Rallies: A Catalog of Relevant State Constitutional and Statutory Provisions,” the Institute provides the results of a 50-state study.

The entry for New Jersey contains only two references: Article I, Section 15 (military subordinate to civil power) and N.J.S.A. 2C:39-14 (outlaws teaching or demonstrating weapons use for illegal purposes, as well as assembling with one or more persons to train weapons use for illegal purposes).

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