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The Policy Impact of Reapportionment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Roger A. Hanson  and
Robert E. Crew Jr.
Roger A. Hanson
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin —Milwaukee
Robert E. Crew Jr.
Affiliation:
Governor's Commission on Crime Prevention and Control State of Minnesota
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A considerable amount of conflict has been generated over the selection of legal standards for legislative apportionment. Prior to 1962, seats in state legislatures were generally assigned to counties. In some houses of some state legislatures, a limited number of additional seats were given to the most populated districts. Population (size) was seldom used, however, either as the sole basis for designing districts or as the sole basis for determining the number of seats for given districts. With the development of the social force of urbanization, a limited number of counties became the residence for a majority of the citizens. Since state legislatures continued to operate with counties as the fundamental unit of legislative apportionment, significant differences in the population of districts were created.

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Law & Society Review , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , Fall 1973 , pp. 69 - 93
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Copyright © 1973 Law and Society Association.

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Footnotes

Authors' Note: We wish to thank Eric Browne, Karen Feste, and Max Nieman for their comments on earlier drafts of this paper.

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