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Full-Text Articles in Law
Campaign Finance Reform, Senate Committee On Elections And Reapportionment
Campaign Finance Reform, Senate Committee On Elections And Reapportionment
California Senate
No abstract provided.
Legal Aliens, Local Citizens: The Historical Constitutional And Theoretical Meanings Of Alien Suffrage, Jamin B. Raskin
Legal Aliens, Local Citizens: The Historical Constitutional And Theoretical Meanings Of Alien Suffrage, Jamin B. Raskin
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
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Assembly Committee On Elections, Reapportionment And Constitutional Amendments 1993 Legislative Summary, Assembly Committee On Elections, Reapportionment And Constitutional Amendments
Assembly Committee On Elections, Reapportionment And Constitutional Amendments 1993 Legislative Summary, Assembly Committee On Elections, Reapportionment And Constitutional Amendments
California Assembly
No abstract provided.
Shaw V. Reno: On The Borderline, Emily Calhoun
Who Rules At Home: One Person/One Vote And Local Governments, Richard Briffault
Who Rules At Home: One Person/One Vote And Local Governments, Richard Briffault
Faculty Scholarship
Twenty-five years ago, in Avery v Midland County, the United States Supreme Court extended the one person/one vote requirement to local governments. Avery and subsequent decisions applying federal constitutional standards to local elections suggested a change in the legal status of local governments and appeared to signal a shift in the balance of federalism. Traditionally, local governments have been conceptualized as instrumentalities of the states. Questions of local government organization and structure were reserved to the plenary discretion of the states with little federal constitutional oversight. In contrast, Avery assumed that local governments are locally representative bodies, not simply …