New Jersey politicians representing mostly minuscule constituencies will resort to the tired old argument of home rule, a principle that does not exist in the New Jersey Constitution, legislatively enacted state law or New Jersey case law.
The bill's demise seemed connected with the principle of home rule, Mr. Wieboldt said.
In a remarkably muted response to the limits on superintendents' salaries, Richard Bozza, the executive director of the New Jersey Association of School Administrators, appealed to the principle of home rule.
Commissioner Dell, a lifelong farmer, insists that at the heart of the matter is the sacred American principle of home rule.
A1 Putting Limits on Suburbia The sacred American principle of home rule is at stake in the battle against suburban sprawl, contends a Maryland commissioner who is challenging a campaign by Gov. Parris N. Glendening to restrict rezoning of farmland for housing.
Mr. Levy and his allies realize that they are never going to build affordable units by decree; under the sacrosanct principle of home rule, local officials who insist that subsidized housing will be built over their dead bodies need never fear for their corporeal dignity.
In 1885 he finally broke with Gladstone over the prime minister's conversion to the principle of Irish Home Rule.
This means adopting home zone principles [pdf] for residential and shopping streets, with high quality pavements and cycle facilities along busy roads.
