U.S. Supreme Court
Dec. 9, 2015
What does 'one person, one-vote' really mean?
Fifty years later, the seemingly settle issue of state legislative apportionment is back before the high court in Evenwel v. Abbott. By Douglas Keith
Before 1964, legislatures in the United States were wildly unrepresentative. In many states, districts were defined by county lines without regard to population. In others, legislatures had simply stopped redistricting despite an obligation to do so. The resulting disparities could be stark. In 1960, for example, the 6 million residents of Los Angeles County had the same representation in the California Senate as the 14,000 combin...
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