Apportionment of State Legislatures

Apportionment of State Legislatures
Author: United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
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Total Pages: 128
Release: 1962
Genre: Apportionment (Election law)
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Presents a picture of State legislatures as they existed when the deicion in Baker v. Carr was rendered by the U.S. Supreme Court, and analyzes various possible approaches to reapportionment from the point of vie of their potential impact on intergovernmental relations. -- p. iii

Reapportionment of State Legislatures

Reapportionment of State Legislatures
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments
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Total Pages: 1240
Release: 1965
Genre: Constitutional amendments
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Considers. S.J. Res. 2, to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to reserve to the people of each state power to determine the composition of its legislature and the apportionment of the membership thereof in accordance with law and the provisions of the U.S. Constitution. S.J. Res. 37 and S.J. Res. 38, to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to permit membership in one house of a state legislature composed of more than one house to be apportioned with the approval of the electorate upon a system other than that of equal representation. S.J. Res. 44, to amend the U.S. Constitution to permit any state to apportion one house of its legislature on factors other than population with the approval of a majority of its voters. Includes texts of Supreme Court decisions, p. 1025-1125.