The College of New Jersey The College of New Jersey The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) is a public, coeducational university in the Trenton suburb of Ewing Township, New Jersey, United States. TCNJ was established in 1855 as the New Jersey State Normal School. The institution was the first normal school in the state of New Jersey and the fifth in the United States. Originally located in Trenton proper, the college was moved to its present location in adjacent Ewing Township during the early to mid-1930s. Since its inception, TCNJ has undergone several name changes, the most recent being the 1996 change to its current
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