by the People of the several States" means that as nearly as is practicable one man's vote in a congressional election is to be worth as much as another's. How Our Laws Are Made - Sida 3efter Edward F. Willett - 1995 - 70 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1964 - 168 sidor
..."guidelines"— a now much-used word in contemporary judicial literature. We tell them only that they must insure that "as nearly as is practicable one man's vote in...a congressional election is to be worth as much as another's."1 A search for just what is "as nearly as is practicable" is presently taxing the minds... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1964 - 176 sidor
..."Representatives be chosen by the people of the several States." The Supreme Court says that means, as nearly as is practicable, one man's vote in a congressional election is to be worth as much as another. So, you have cut into the situation the equality of representation principle of the Constitution.... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1964 - 948 sidor
...United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such ManOpinion of the Court. 376 US nearly as is practicable one man's vote in a congressional election is to be worth as much as another's.10 This rule is followed automatically, of course, when Representatives are chosen as a group... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1964 - 954 sidor
...United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such ManOpinion of the Court. 376 US nearly as is practicable one man's vote in a congressional election is to be worth as much as another's.10 This rule is followed automatically, of course, when Representatives are chosen as a group... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1965 - 308 sidor
...in population in order to comply with what the Court concluded was the constitutional mandate that "one man's vote in a congressional election is to be worth as much as another's" (376 US at 7-8). HR 2836 attempts to provide an objective standard as to permissible variations in... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1965 - 306 sidor
...in population in order to comply with what the Court concluded was the constitutional mandate that "one man's vote in a congressional election is to be worth as much as another's" (376 US at 7-8). HR 2836 attempts to provide an objective standard as to permissible variations in... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1968 - 688 sidor
...command of Art. I, § 2, that Representatives be chosen 'by the People of the several States' means that as nearly as is practicable one man's vote in...congressional election is to be worth as much as another's." History was Mr. Justice Black's main support — a history th:il slopped with 1789, a history that... | |
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