Word: reapportionments
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Theoretically, the state should reapportion House seats every ten years, but they were last redistributed in 1947. Apparently the framers of the Massachusetts constitution intended to eliminate inequalities by changing the size and extent of wards, rather than moving them to different districts, but that approach was not used this...
Massive Assault. The demise of Georgia's county unit system is the most striking of many reverberations from the Supreme Court's reapportionment decision. With remarkable speed, suits to force reapportionment have been filed or reinstituted in nearly a score of states. In Alabama a federal court has ordered the legislature to reapportion or have a court-ordered formula forced upon it. In Tennessee, where the stone that started the avalanche got rolling. Governor Buford Ellington announced last week that he was calling the legislature into special session to act on reapportionment. A suit challenging the apportionment...
Alabama's population is decreasing, and it was the legislature's painful duty to reapportion the state into eight congressional districts instead of nine. Legislators from the industrial areas of north Alabama argued that the cut should come from the rural south. But southern politicians, who dominate the...
A friendly Legislature would be helpful to Furcolo but there is a more important consideration. A new census will be taken in 1960 and Massachusetts will probably lose two or three Congressional seats. The Legislature will reapportion the state's districts, and the Republicans are harping on the possibility of...
Even more significant than House sections can be imaginative efforts to enlist more faculty interest in the House and to bring all levels of teachers into a closer relation to its function. At present, this is virtually impossible because of the pressure of numbers. The Houses are filled to overflowing...