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Representation And Election: The Reapportionment Cases In Retrospect, William P. Irwin

Michigan Law Review

In general, both in the two-year interval between Baker v. Carr and Reynolds v. Sims and in the period following the reapportionment decisions of June 1964, discussion of the issue among scholars and publicists has tended to center upon four problems of varying scope and precision: (1) the jurisdiction of the federal courts to pass upon aspects of state legislative apportionment; (2) the justiciability of the same matter; (3) the substantive merits of the several cases; and, (4) the implications of the decisions for democratic theory and practice. No attempt is made here to reopen the argument about federal jurisdiction; …

Exclusive Jurisdiction - The Key To Voting Rights For Residents Of Federal Enclaves - Cornman V. Dawson

Maryland Law Review

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Reapportionment--Legislative Bodies--Significant Deviation From Standard Of Substantial Population Equality Of State Legislative Districts Is Permissible To Provide Representatives For Two Island Counties--Vigneault V. Secretary Of The Commonwealth, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Since Baker v. Carr, when the Supreme Court overruled a long line of earlier decisions and concluded that the relationship of the equal protection clause to a state's power to create geographical districts for legislative representation was a justiciable issue, state apportionment plans have come under increasing judicial scrutiny. In Gray v. Sanders, the Court held invalid a Georgia primary election plan which favored voters from rural areas. Although Gray dealt with the dilution of individual voting rights rather than legislative reapportionment, it is important as the first enunciation of the now-famous "one man-one vote" test. Specifically, the …

State Residency Requirements And The Right To Vote In Presidential Elections, William C. Stone

Kentucky Law Journal

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Reapportionment: Success Story Of The Warren Court, Robert B. Mckay

Michigan Law Review

The fascinating thing about this major engagement of the Warren Court is that the principal decisions came to the Court late-1962 and after. Although these decisions precipitated a revolution in the concept and practice of legislative representation at every level of government, they were implemented quickly and with surprisingly little dislocation. The following remarks are intended to report the fact of that adjustment and to explain, to the extent the phenomenon is now understandable, why the change was so easily accomplished. When compared with the delay in public acceptance of decisions in the other areas mentioned above, the success of …

Avery V. Midland County: Reapportionment And Local Government Revisited, R. Perry Sentell Jr.

Scholarly Works

Earlier in the pages of this Review the judicial application of the "one-man-one-vote" standard to local government is discussed in detail. As noted, the United States Supreme Court did not completely evolve this standard for state legislatures until June, 1964. Since that time, the state courts and the lower federal courts have been inundated with litigation raising the question of the basic applicability of the standard to local governments in this country, as well as a host of accompanying inquiries. This litigation and the courts' reactions to it were extensively traced. At the close of its term, however, the Court …

The Impact And Constitutionality Of Voter Residence Requirements As Applied To Certain Intrastate Movers, Nicholas K. Brown

Indiana Law Journal

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Election Laws, James Edward Seibert

West Virginia Law Review

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Comment, John J. Sparkman

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Comment, Birch Bayh

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Comment, Karl E. Mundt

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Some Doubts Concerning The Proposal To Elect The President By Direct Popular Vote, Albert J. Rosenthal

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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One Man, 3.312 Votes: A Mathematical Analysis Of The Electoral College, John F. Banzhaf Iii

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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The Authorization Card Dilemma, Michael F. Rosenblum

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Electoral College - Its Defects And Dangers, The, John D. Feerick

Faculty Scholarship

In a few months we will witness the operation of the electoral college system of electing the President and Vice President of the United States. Due partly to the appearance of George C. Wallace's American Independent Party,' the 1968 election could be decided in the House of Representatives, where each state has one vote regardless of its population. The election seems certain to point up the perils in our present system. Although our system of electing the President is now under scrutiny by Congress, reform does not appear imminent. As in the case of presidential inability, a tragedy or near …

Reflections On The Electoral College, Various Editors

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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The Power Index And The Electoral College: A Challenge To Banzhaf's Analysis, Robert J. Sickels

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Reflections On The Electoral College, Various Editors

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Comment, Neal R. Peirce

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Reapportionment And Local Government, R. Perry Sentell Jr.

Scholarly Works

On June 15, 1964, the Supreme Court of the United States, in the context of its decisions in Reynolds v. Sims and companion cases, put the finishing touches upon its evolving principle that state legislatures must be apportioned on an equal population basis; i.e., the "one-man-one-vote" standard. This principle drew its commandment, held the Court, from the equal protection provision of the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution. On May 22, 1967, the Supreme Court of the United States rendered decisions in three cases which had confronted it for the first time with questions on the relationship of the …

Double Test For Infamous Crimes

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Establishment Of Bargaining Rights Without An Nlrb Election, Howard Lesnick

Michigan Law Review

Those who have become accustomed to keep one ear cocked for the five-part harmony relentlessly ground out by the mimeograph machines at NLRB headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue-those whom one may call professional Board-watchers-have doubtless noticed how fashions come and go in the subjects of NLRB litigation. It is as if the interest of litigants as easily wanes as does that of the reader of opinions, for there is a fairly regular succession of themes, each to be developed for a time until, as though by common consent, attention swings toward a different problem entirely. The wave of the present, I …

Reapportionment At The County Level - Moody V. Flowers

Maryland Law Review

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Labor Democracy In America: The Impact Of Titles I & (And) Iv Of The Landrum-Griffin Act, Robert L. Berchem

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Expression Of Democracy: Local Elections In Petorca, Chile, Peter S. Cleaves, Eugene V. Matta

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The municipal elections of Chile were held on April 2,1967. On April 3, in Santiago, spokesmen from the national committees of the five major parties --the Christian Democrats, the Radicals, the Communists, the Nationalists, and the Socialists--all proclaimed that the results showed that their political aggregation had been victorious on the previous day. The debate concerning who had won the election raged for several weeks in the press, in Congress and in spirited social conversation. The Christian Democrats argued that although their percentage of the national vote dropped from forty-two per cent to thirty-five per cent, they had increased their …

The Ex-Convict's Right To Vote, David H. Getches

Publications

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Constitutional Law--Establishing Student's Domicile For Voting Purposes, Jacob Michael Robinson

West Virginia Law Review

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The Legislature's Power To Judge The Qualifications Of Its Members, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

Because federal and state constitutions require members of the legislative branch of the government to meet certain qualifications, the legal existence of a legislative body is dependent upon compliance with those constitutional requirements.' However, by express constitutional provisions, and by traditional legislative practice and usage, the legislature itself is deemed to be the final judge of the election and qualifications of its members. Section 5 of article I of the United States Constitution provides: "Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members ...." The constitutions of all the states contain provisions to …

Legislative Reapportionment And Congressional Redistricting In Virginia, Ralph Eisenberg

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Constitutional Law - Voting Rights, Charles R. Passafiume

Duquesne Law Review

Legislative election of a governor in default of a victor in the popular election does not violate the fourteenth amendment guarantee of equal protection of the laws.

Fortson v. Morris, 385 U.S. 231 (1966).