Download or read book Compendium on Legislative Apportionment written by National Municipal League and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Compendium on Legislative Apportionment A Collection of Statistics and Appraisals from Local Non Official Authorities in 50 States Relating to Inequalities in Legislative and Congressional Representa written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Compendium on Legislative Apportionment written by National Municipal League and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Compendium on Legislative Apportionment written by National Municipal League and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Apportionment of State Legislatures written by United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a picture of State legislatures as they existed when the deicion in Baker v. Carr was rendered by the U.S. Supreme Court, and analyzes various possible approaches to reapportionment from the point of vie of their potential impact on intergovernmental relations. -- p. iii

Download or read book Measuring Legislative Malapportionment written by Alan L. Clem and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Court Decisions on Legislative Apportionment written by National Municipal League and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On Democracy s Doorstep written by J. Douglas Smith and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Henry Adams Prize from the Society for History in the Federal Government A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction A Slate Best Book of 2014 The inside story of the Supreme Court decisions that brought true democracy to the United States As chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Earl Warren is most often remembered for landmark rulings in favor of desegregation and the rights of the accused. But Warren himself identified a lesser known group of cases—Baker v. Carr, Reynolds v. Sims, and their companions—as his most important work. J. Douglas Smith's On Democracy's Doorstep masterfully recounts the tumultuous and often overlooked events that established the principle of "one person, one vote" in the United States. Before the Warren Court acted, American democracy was in poor order. As citizens migrated to urban areas, legislative boundaries remained the same, giving rural lawmakers from sparsely populated districts disproportionate political power—a power they often used on behalf of influential business interests. Smith shows how activists ranging from city boosters in Tennessee to the League of Women Voters worked to end malapportionment, incurring the wrath of chambers of commerce and southern segregationists as they did so. Despite a conspiracy of legislative inaction and a 1946 Supreme Court decision that instructed the judiciary not to enter the "political thicket," advocates did not lose hope. As Smith shows, they skillfully used the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause to argue for radical judicial intervention. Smith vividly depicts the unfolding drama as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy pressed for change, Solicitor General Archibald Cox cautiously held back, young clerks pushed the justices toward ever-bolder reform, and the powerful Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen obsessively sought to reverse the judicial revolution that had upended state governments from California to Virginia. Today, following the Court's recent controversial decisions on voting rights and campaign finance, the battles described in On Democracy's Doorstep have increasing relevance. With erudition and verve, Smith illuminates this neglected episode of American political history and confronts its profound consequences.

Download or read book The Politics of Reapportionment written by Malcolm Jewell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of apportionment is one of the most important problems facing citizens of most of the states in America. It underlies many other problems of state government. Growing judicial concern with apportionment is evidence of a failure of the political process in many states. A political solution to the problem requires better understanding and more accurate information about apportionment, which may be found in The Politics of Reapportionment.Understanding the politics of apportionment may be broken down into four parts: What are the political factors that have caused the various states to follow differing courses in apportionment? What are the political consequences of these differences in apportionment? When a legislature is grappling with any reapportionment problem, what roles are played by the various political groups involved? What are the consequences of transferring this controversy out of the legislative arena?Jewell notes that a study of legislative apportionment is essential to an understanding of any representative system of government. In the U.S. the patterns of apportionment have vitally affected the nature of our state and national political institutions, and our political history has been marked by a number of colorful struggles over this issue. For these reasons, American political scientists have devoted more attention to apportionment than to many other problems of government.

Download or read book Reapportionment of State Legislatures written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers. S.J. Res. 2, to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to reserve to the people of each state power to determine the composition of its legislature and the apportionment of the membership thereof in accordance with law and the provisions of the U.S. Constitution. S.J. Res. 37 and S.J. Res. 38, to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to permit membership in one house of a state legislature composed of more than one house to be apportioned with the approval of the electorate upon a system other than that of equal representation. S.J. Res. 44, to amend the U.S. Constitution to permit any state to apportion one house of its legislature on factors other than population with the approval of a majority of its voters. Includes texts of Supreme Court decisions, p. 1025-1125.

Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reapportionment of State Legislatures written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court written by and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Presidential Inability and Vacacies in the Office of Vice President written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Electoral Laws and Their Political Consequences written by Bernard Grofman and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to provide an overview of recent research on electoral laws and their political consequences by scholars who have helped shape the field.

Download or read book Federal and State Legislative Apportionment written by University of Chicago. Law School. Library and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism written by Matthew D. Lassiter and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2010 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than one-third of the population of the United States now lives in the South, a region where politics, race relations, and the economy have changed dramatically since World War II. Yet scholars and journalists continue to disagree over whether the modern South is dominating, deviating from, or converging with the rest of the nation. This collection asks how the stories of American history chance if the South is no longer seen as a region apart--as the conservative exception to a liberal nation."--Back cover.