New Jersey State House transportation for field trips to take tours of the New Jersey State House. New Jersey State House The New Jersey State House is located in Trenton and is the capitol building for the U.S. state of New Jersey. Built in 1790, it is the third-oldest state house in continuous legislative use in the United States; only the Maryland State Capitol in Annapolis and the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond are older. The building houses both chambers of the Legislature (the Senate and the General Assembly), as well as offices for the Governor, Lieutenant Governor and several state government departments. After
History of the New Jersey State Constitution of legislative districts after the Supreme Court invalidated the state's scheme for electing state senators geographically by county boundaries instead of population as violative of the "one-man, one-vote" doctrine embodied in the Federal Constitution's 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause. This was compelled in the wake of court decisions in "Baker v. Carr" (1962) 369 U.S. 186 and "Reynolds v. Simms", 377 U.S. 533 (1964). A 2005 amendment changed the order of succession and created a position of Lieutenant Governor. History of the New Jersey State Constitution Originally, the state of New Jersey was a single British colony, the Province of