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Quigley: It’s time for New Jersey to elect the attorney general

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The first attorneys general were appointed by the British Crown and their duties were chiefly to prosecute those upstart colonists who didn’t obey the king’s laws. But in 1776, after independence was declared, Americans began choosing their own

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