Wollen v. Borough of Fort Lee

How courts have described this case

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• councilmen who campaigned and were elected on promises to implement zoning changes qualified to vote on ordinance in manner consistent with prior positions
• it is not the words, but the internal sense of the statute which governs
• “The inquiry in the final analysis is the true intention of the law; and, to this end, the particular words are to be made responsive to the essential principle of the law. It is not the words but the internal sense of the law that controls.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).