Word: reapportionment
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...Rhode Island called a December constitutional convention to reapportion the legislature as required by the U.S. Supreme Court. Two consecutive sessions of the state legislature failed to reach agreement on reapportionment...
It was Ev's way of saying again that he is profoundly opposed to a June 15 Supreme Court decision ordering states to reapportion their entire legislatures on the basis of population-the "one man, one vote" principle. To Dirksen, arguments about that issue are "hogwash" and the only...
In that historic decision, the court decreed that both houses of state legislatures must be apportioned according to population. In most cases it has been traditional for only one house to be so apportioned, but the Supreme Court held this unconstitutional, since it denied the principle of "one man, one...
Pierre Salinger's entry into California's Democratic Senate primary was late and funny. He filed only two hours before the deadline, then had comic-opera troubles convincing legal author ities that he was a Californian; after all, he had not lived in the state for nine years...
Because of failure to reapportion Alabama's districts, candidates for all eight of the state's House seats ran at large. In last week's Democratic pri mary, Elliott, 51, stood ninth and, after seven House terms, was turned out of office. Just to underline their point...