Word: districtcourt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amendment to the Georgia constitution stipulating that no-majority gubernatorial elections be decided in the legislature. Similar provisions are now in effect in only two other states, Mississippi and Vermont, and no legislature has legally elected a governor since New Hampshire did so in 1913. Overruling a federal-districtcourt decision, the high court also rejected the view of dissenting Justice William O. Douglas that a legislature should not make the final choice "when the election has been entrusted to the people." Despite the fact that the Georgia assembly is malapportioned, said Justice Hugo Black's majority opinion, there...
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