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Stile: Is Sweeney reshaping Jersey’s bedrock?

BY CHARLES STILE
RECORD COLUMNIST |
THE RECORD

The late Gov. Alfred E. Driscoll, a founding father of the modern state constitution, probably would have been appalled with state Senate President Stephen Sweeney’s approach to New Jersey’s hallowed charter.

In 1947, Driscoll urged the 81 delegates who had been chosen to draft the new document to refrain from padding it with their pet legislative projects. Stick to “basic fundamental principles,” he said.

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