Committeeman Carol Rizzo assumed the Neptune office in 2016 and took the oath. Paul Goldfinger photo. Blogfinger.net © Last year (2021) she resigned.
This is written by Charles Krauthammer:*
“Whenever we bestow upon anyone the authority to wield the power of the state over free citizens, we make them swear to protect not the people, not the nation, not the flag, but the Constitution of the United States.
“A piece of paper. Of course, it stands for the pillars of the American experiment itself: the ideas, the structures, the philosophy that define a limited government with enumerated powers, whose mission is to preserve liberty and individual rights.”
*The Point of It All is Krauthammer’s book published posthumously in 2018. The subtitle is “A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors.”
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