| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1965 - 1366 páginas
...stated, "We hold that, a basic constitutional standard, tbe equal protection clause requires that ts in both houses of a bicameral State legislature must be apportioned on a lation basis." All of the joint resolutions currently being considered by this committee would iride... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1968 - 688 páginas
...office require no less of us." Therefore: TT "[T]he Equal Protection Clause requires that the seats in both houses of a bicameral state 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... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1968 - 970 páginas
...Supreme Court ruled that the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment "requires that the seats In both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apportioned on a population basis," and that while "mathematical exactness of precision" In carving out legislative districts may be Impossible,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - 1978 - 106 páginas
...hold that as basic constitutional standard, the Equal Protection Clause requires that the seats in both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apportioned on a population basis. Reynolds v. Sims, 337 US, at 568, 84 S. Ct. at 1385." Section 5 (a) of the Organic Act of Guam, as... | |
| Gerald T. Dunne - 1977 - 514 páginas
...elected by votes, not farms, or cities, or economic interests . . . [Accordingly] we hold . . . seats in both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apportioned on a population basis." And, more than this, the new rules were placed in effect, not with deliberate speed, but with precise... | |
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