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" We hold that, as a 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. Simply stated, an individual's right to vote for state legislators... "
District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2007: Hearing Before the ... - Page 318
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 2007 - 322 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
...both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apportioned on a population basis. Simply stated, an individual's right to vote for state legislators...votes of citizens living in other parts of the State. Since, under neither the existing apportionment provisions nor either of the proposed plans was either...
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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
...both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apportioned on a population basis. Simply stated, an individual's right to vote for state legislators...votes of citizens living in other parts of the State. Since, under neither the existing apportionment provisions nor either of the proposed plans was either...
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Reapportionment of State Legislatures: Hearing, 89-1, March 3 - May 21, 1965

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1965 - 1366 pages
...both houses of a bicameral State legislature must be apportioned on a population basis. Simply stated, an individual's right to vote for State legislators...unconstitutionally impaired when its weight is in 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. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments - Government publications - 1973 - 374 pages
...both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apportioned on a population basis. Simply stated, an individual's right to vote for state legislators...votes of citizens living in other parts of the State . . . . . . We . . . find the federal analogy inapposite and irrelevant to state legislative districting...
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Reconfirmation of Federal Judges: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1973 - 362 pages
...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...votes of citizens living in other parts of the State . . . . . . We . . . find the federal analogy inapposite and irrelevant to state legislative districting...
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Administrative procedure - 1978 - 364 pages
...houses of a bicameral state legislature. must be apportioned on a population basis. Simply stated, an individual's right to vote for state legislators...votes of citizens living in other parts of the State . . . . . . AVe . . . find the federal analogy inapposite and irrelevant to state legislative districting...
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Oversight Hearings on the 1980 Census: Hearings Before the ..., Part 11

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Census and Population - United States - 1979 - 74 pages
...for the majority in Reynolds v. Sims, then-Chief Justice Earl Warren said, in part, "Simply stated, an individual's right to vote for State legislators...unconstitutionally impaired when its weight is, in some substantial fashion, diluted when compared with votes of citizens living in other parts of the...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 478

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1989 - 1018 pages
...legitimate reason for overweighting or diluting the efficacy of his vote." 377 US, at 567. For that reason, "an individual's right to vote for state legislators...votes of citizens living in other parts of the State." Id., at 568. Thus, the right guaranteed by the Equal Protection Clause as interpreted in Reynolds is...
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Charter Revision in the Empire State: The Politics of New York's 1967 ...

Henrik N. Dullea - Political Science - 1997 - 472 pages
...both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apportioned on a population basis. Simply stated, an individual's right to vote for state legislators...votes of citizens living in other parts of the State. 47 States were instructed to "make a good faith effort to construct districts, in both houses of ......
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Democracy: The Rule of Law and Islam

Eugene Cotran, Adel Omar Sherif - Religion - 1999 - 620 pages
...same principle to state legislative apportionment. In Reynolds v Sims (1964), the Court explained that "[A]n individual's right to vote for state legislators...votes of citizens living in other parts of the state. "'' In its decision, the Court specified that representation in a state legislature must be closely...
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