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-{{USState
-|name=New Jersey
-|flag=New_Jersey_State_Flag.gif
-|motto="Liberty and Prosperity"
-|nick=The Garden State
-|capital=Trenton
-|language=None
-|governor=Christopher Christie
-|gparty=Republican
-|senator1=Frank Lautenberg
-|s1party=Democrat
-|s1phone=(202) 224-3224
-|s1email=http://lautenberg.senate.gov/contact/ Contact
-|senator2=Bob Menendez
-|s2party=Democrat
-|s2phone=(202) 224-4744
-|s2email=http://menendez.senate.gov/contact/contact.cfm Contact
-|population=
-|date=December 18, 1787 (3rd)
-}}
-'''New Jersey''' is one of the thirteen original colonies that formed the [[United States]]. It was the third state to enter into the Union.  Its population has the highest overall density of any State, featuring many  thousands of towns.<ref>http://www.nj.gov/nj/govinfo/county/localgov.html (list of municipalities, which links to each one).</ref>
-New Jersey is nicknamed "the Garden State." It has 127 miles of coastline, including resort areas such as [[Atlantic City]], Asbury Park, and Cape May, some with beautiful and historic [[Victorian]] [[architecture]].  Its capital city is [[Trenton]].
-It is home to two famous old universities: [[Princeton University|Princeton]] and [[Rutgers University|Rutgers]]. They are both ''colonial colleges,'' the nine colleges chartered in the colonies before the [[American Revolution]]. Princeton traditionally claims 1740 as its year of founding<!--have to put in this qualification because of a longstanding dispute between Princeton and Penn-->, making it the fourth oldest university in the United States; Rutgers, founded in 1766, is the eighth oldest. Princeton is a member of the [[Ivy League]].
-New Jersey legalized [[domestic partnership]]s (for same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples over 62 years of age) in 2004<ref>http://www.answers.com/topic/domestic-partnership-in-the-united-states</ref> and [[civil union]]s for same-sex couples, which are similiar to [[same sex marriage]], in 2007.<ref>http://data.lambdalegal.org/pdf/772.pdf</ref>
-The current Governor of New Jersey is [[Chris Christie]], a [[Republican]] elected in 2009.
-==Conservapedia==
-[[Conservapedia]] was founded in New Jersey on November 22, 2006. It was started by a class of 56 homeschooled children, ranging from 11 years old to 18, as a project for homework.
-==References==
-<References/>
-{{USstates}}
-[[Category:States of the United States]]
-[[Category:New Jersey]]

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