Reapportionment of State Legislatures: Hearings, Eighty-ninth Congress, First Session |
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... reapportioned according to a plan approved by a Federal court . Elections have been conducted and a new legislature has met . These legislators came from districts that reflected the new rule ... REAPPORTIONMENT OF STATE LEGISLATURES 9.
... reapportioned according to a plan approved by a Federal court . Elections have been conducted and a new legislature has met . These legislators came from districts that reflected the new rule ... REAPPORTIONMENT OF STATE LEGISLATURES 9.
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... reapportionment . The injunction places a legal cloud over all its actions , except on reapportionment , so that for all intents and purposes , after passing a reapportionment plan , the legislature would be dissolved . For the next ...
... reapportionment . The injunction places a legal cloud over all its actions , except on reapportionment , so that for all intents and purposes , after passing a reapportionment plan , the legislature would be dissolved . For the next ...
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... reapportionment that could be put through the legislature , because the population growth of Cook County would have had to be recognized . " The Nation , as the President reminded us earlier in the week , is now about 70 percent urban ...
... reapportionment that could be put through the legislature , because the population growth of Cook County would have had to be recognized . " The Nation , as the President reminded us earlier in the week , is now about 70 percent urban ...
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... reapportionment of both houses substan- tially on the basis of population . But in most of these States the previous apportionment was not severely unfair . This reapportion- ment has taken effect , or will be in effect by November 1966 ...
... reapportionment of both houses substan- tially on the basis of population . But in most of these States the previous apportionment was not severely unfair . This reapportion- ment has taken effect , or will be in effect by November 1966 ...
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... reapportionment every decade , there had been no reapportionment after 1901 . There was similarly no reapportionment in Illinois . The only way we could get even one house properly represented was to write into the State constitution ...
... reapportionment every decade , there had been no reapportionment after 1901 . There was similarly no reapportionment in Illinois . The only way we could get even one house properly represented was to write into the State constitution ...
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Page 557 - The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results ; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society...
Page 74 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 558 - Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
Page 557 - But the most common and durable source of factions, has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold, and those who are without property, have ever formed distinct interests in society.
Page 73 - The legislatures of those districts or new States, shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers.
Page 73 - As soon as a legislature shall be formed in the district, the council and house assembled, in one room, shall have authority, by joint ballot, to elect a delegate to congress, who shall have a seat in congress, with a right of debating, but not of voting during this temporary government.
Page 72 - The general assembly, or legislature, shall consist of the governor, legislative council, and a house of representatives. The legislative council shall consist of five members, to continue in office five years, unless sooner removed by Congress, any three of whom to be...
Page 72 - ... for the execution of process criminal and civil, the governor shall make proper divisions thereof, and he shall proceed from time to time as circumstances may require to lay out the parts of the District in which the indian titles shall have been extinguished into counties and townships subject however to such alterations as may thereafter be made by the legislature...
Page 558 - It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.
Page 558 - I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction.