Excerpt from The Government of Hudson County, New Jersey In certain aspects, state centralization of control over counties has been developed, to a more advanced stage in New Jersey than in the majority of states.22 However, the two counter tendencies, first, of centralized control over local afiairs by the state, and second of greater self government by the local county and municipal authori ties, are discernible in this State as elsewhere. The con stitutional provision requiring equal representation of all counties in the senate has assisted the centralization ists in state control over the larger counties; the larger counties have beenat the mercy of the smaller. The leg islatures have frequently enacted legislation affecting the internal government of the large counties which the latter claimed should be a matter for their own regula tion. The fact that Hudson County has always been a stronghold for one political party, while the legislature for twenty years has been under the control of the rival party, has increased the antagonism between the state and county governments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.