 The document limited the state government's ability to accumulate public debt.The Constitutional Convention that drafted the state's 1947 constitution met at the Rutgers University Gymnasium on College Avenue in New Brunswick.Another constitutional convention was held at the Rutgers University campus to rectify the apportionment 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.