Popular Government, Vol. 31: Published by the Institute of Government, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; April 1965 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Oettinger, Elmer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1528135318 ISBN 13: 9781528135313

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Popular Government, Vol. 31: Published by the Institute of Government, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; April 1965

In its simplest form, the holding of the United States Supreme Court in the legislative representation cases is that every citizen has a federal constitutional right, under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, to equal representation according to population in the United States House of Representatives and in both houses of his state legislature. This means, in the case of state legislature, that each member of each house of a state legislature must represent a number of people substantially equal to the number represented by every other member of the same house. It was in part to conform to the requirements of this ruling that the General Assembly of North Carolina in 1963 te drew the state senatorial district lines and reapportioned senate seats among the districts in an effort to provide that every Senator would represent approximately people, or the average obtained by dividing the 1960 population of the State by 50, the number of State Senators.

In the view of the Supreme Court, unless each legislator represents about the same number of people, the residents of a district of small population are proportionately more heavily represented in the legislative body than are the residents of a district of large population, to the unfair ad vantage of the former group and the unfair disadvantage of the latter group.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1528135318
• ISBN 13: 9781528135313
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 28