1983). VI CONCLUSION To sum up, the Act of 1871 was a response to a profound breakdown in state government. Congress guaranteed by Section 1 of the Act that every person should have a federal remedy for failure of any state actor to afford a person the rights, privileges and immunities secured by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Among the rights secured by the Fourteenth Amendment is that no state shall deprive a person of property without due process of law, nor deny to that person the equal protection of the laws. In the setting of municipal land use controversies, our State has well established procedures, including judicial review of municipal governance, to assure government under law. See Pizzo Mantin Group v. Township of Randolph, 137 N.J. 216, 645 A.2d 89 (1994) (<HOLDING>). We are satisfied that the principles of
holding that municipal government may not exercise unguided developmental powers but must incorporate standards of decision in dulyenacted ordinances holding that a policy for purposes of municipal liability may be established by an officials single decision recognizing that citizens who exercise their rights under the initiative provisions act as and become in fact the legislative branch of the municipal government  holding that municipal pension boards may not be sued holding a court of criminal appeals may not exercise its sentence approval powers to criticize a state court conviction