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" Simply stated, an individual's right to vote for state legislators is unconstitutionally impaired when its weight is in a substantial fashion diluted when compared with votes of citizens living in other parts of the State. Since, under neither the existing... "
Reapportionment of State Legislatures: Hearing, 89-1, March 3 - May 21, 1965 - Page 299
by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1965 - 1228 pages
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 377

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1964 - 972 pages
...proclaimed a plan for House redistricting under the 1963 amendment. Appeals to this Court followed. Held: 1. The seats in both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apportioned substantially on a population basis. Reynolds v. Sims, ante, p. 533, followed. P. 708. 2. Neither of...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 377

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1964 - 980 pages
...proclaimed a plan for House redistricting under the 1963 amendment. Appeals to this Court followed. Held: 1. The seats in both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apportioned substantially on a population basis. Reynolds v. Sims, ante, p. 533, followed. P. 708. 2. Neither of...
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The Supreme Court: Hearings Before the Subcommitttee on Separation of Powers ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1968 - 688 pages
...protected rights demands judicial protection; our oath and our office require no less of us." Therefore: TT "[T]he Equal Protection Clause requires that the seats...legislature must be apportioned on a population basis." QED Those who point to the composition of the national legislature as an analogy to which the states...
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The Supreme Court: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Separation of Powers - Separation of powers - 1968 - 680 pages
...rights demands judicial protection; our oath and our office require no less of us." Therefore: 7T " [T]he Equal Protection Clause requires that the seats...legislature must be apportioned on a population basis." QED Those who point to the composition of the national legislature as an analogy to which the states...
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Election of the President: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1968 - 970 pages
...related cases Is which the Supreme Court ruled that the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment "requires that the seats In both houses of a bicameral...legislature must be apportioned on a population basis," and that while "mathematical exactness of precision" In carving out legislative districts may be Impossible,...
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Election of the President: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments - 1968 - 1046 pages
...related cases in which the Supreme Court ruled that me equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment "requires that the seats in both houses of a bicameral...legislature must be apportioned on a population basis," and that while "mathematical exactness of precision" in carving out legislative districts may be Impossible,...
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Federal Constitutional Convention: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1968 - 260 pages
...assertion of jurisdiction in Baker v. Carr, supra. In the case of Reynolds v. Sims' the Court held that, "as a basic constitutional standard, the Equal Protection Clause requires that both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apportioned on a population basis." * Explaining...
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Reconfirmation of Federal Judges: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments - Government publications - 1973 - 374 pages
...the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In Reynolds, Mr. Chief Justice Warren said : "We hold that, as a basic constitutional standard,...unconstitutionally impaired when its weight is in a substantial fashion diluted when compared with votes of citizens living in other parts of the State...
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Reconfirmation of Federal Judges: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1973 - 362 pages
...the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In Reynolds, Mr. Chief Justice Warren said : "We hold that, as a basic constitutional standard,...both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apport1oned on a population basis. Simply stated, an individual's right to vote for state legislators...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 412

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1974 - 1044 pages
...equal in weight to that of any other citizen in the State." Id., at 579. In other words, "[s] imply stated, an individual's right to vote for state legislators...unconstitutionally impaired when its weight is in a substantial fashion diluted when compared with votes of citizens living in other parts of the State."...
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