Editing List of counties in New Jersey (section)

==New Jersey legislature representation==
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Until the 1960s, the [[New Jersey Senate]] had 21 representatives, one from each county regardless of population. In the wake of the 1964 decision by the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] in ''[[Reynolds v. Sims]]'', establishing the [[one man, one vote]] principle that state legislative districts must be approximately equal in size, [[David Friedland]] filed suit in [[New Jersey Supreme Court]] on behalf of two union leaders, challenging a system under which each county was represented by a single member in the [[New Jersey Senate]]. The court ruled unanimously that the existing system was unconstitutional, ordered that interim measures be established by statute for the 1965 legislative elections, and ordered that the needed constitutional changes to restructure the [[New Jersey Legislature]] to be in compliance with "one man, one vote" requirements be in place before elections took place in 1967.<ref>{{cite court |litigants=Jackman v. Bodine |vol=43 |reporter=N.J. |opinion=453 |date=November 25, 1964 |url=https://casetext.com/case/jackman-v-bodine-3}}</ref> The senate unilaterally&mdash;by internal rule, not by statute&mdash;enacted a proposal whereby each senator's vote would be weighted based on the population of the county represented,  under which [[Cape May County, New Jersey|Cape May County]]'s senator would receive one vote while the senator from [[Essex County, New Jersey|Essex County]] would receive 19.1 votes, in direct relation to the ratio of residents between counties.<ref name="Wright">{{cite news|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0913F63C5D13738DDDAF0994DA415B848AF1D3|title=Weighted Voting Voided in Jersey; State's Highest Court Bars Senate's Plan&mdash;No Ruling on Its Constitutionality |last=Wright|first=George Cable|date=December 16, 1964|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=September 1, 2009|archive-date=December 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215114420/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/12/16/archives/weighted-voting-voided-in-jersey-states-highest-court-bars-senates.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that it was unconstitutional for the senate to adopt a weighted voting system unilaterally.<ref name="Wright" /><ref>{{cite court |litigants=Jackman v. Bodine |vol=205 |reporter=A. 2d |opinion=735 |date=December 15, 1964 |url=https://casetext.com/case/jackman-v-bodine-1}}</ref> In 1966, the constitution was amended to establish 40 districts statewide, each represented by one senator and two assembly members, without relation to county boundaries.<ref>{{cite web |title=New Jersey State Constitution 1947 |url=https://njleg.state.nj.us/constitution |date=November 2020 |access-date=July 2, 2023 |at=Art. IV § II and art. XI § V (amended December 8, 1966)}}</ref>