| Bernard Grofman - Law - 2003 - 354 pages
...gerrymandering have preferred to overlook, he defined the nature of the constitutional claim being adjudicated: A predominant consideration in determining whether...of their constitutionally protected right to vote (p. 561) Attacks on malapportionment could have been conceptualized as claims by the residents of underrepresented... | |
| Brennan Center for Justice - Civil rights - 1997 - 348 pages
...Our paramount concern has remained an individual and personal right— the right to an equal vote. "While the result of a court decision in a state legislative...of their constitutionally protected right to vote." We have demanded equality in district population precisely to insure that the weight of a person's... | |
| William P. Kreml - Civil law - 1997 - 252 pages
...violated the equal protection provisions of the federal Constitution? The Court answered that the power to "require the restructuring of the geographical distribution of seats in a state legislature" would lie within the Court's jurisdiction if "there has been any discrimination against certain of... | |
| Bernard Grofman - Law - 2003 - 354 pages
...gerrymandering have preferred to overlook, he defined the nature of the constitutional claim being adjudicated: A predominant consideration in determining whether...of their constitutionally protected right to vote (p. 561) Attacks on malapportionment could have been conceptualized as claims by the residents of underrepresented... | |
| Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - Law - 2004 - 502 pages
...Court in United States v. Batbgate, 246 US 220, 227 (1918), "[tlhe right to vote is personal. . . ." While the result of a court decision in a state legislative...of their constitutionally protected right to vote. . . . Undoubtedly, the right of suffrage is a fundamental matter in a free and democratic society.... | |
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