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To: Jacquerie

On a related note, by my understanding, many states used to have a legislative body whose members represented counties until some court (I forget the details) ruled that such a thing violates “equal protection” or some such. Clearly the Founding Fathers could never intended for any entity to have half of a bicameral legislature whose members were not allocated according to population, right? After that ruling, “state senate” seats have been allocated in such fashion as to eliminate county representation.


7 posted on 11/15/2013 3:45:42 PM PST by supercat (Renounce Covetousness.)
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To: supercat
That is correct. In Reynolds v. Sims, the Warren court imposed a populist, 17th amendment sort of arrangement on state government. Horrible.

If Your State is a Mess

BTW, do you have a copy of Mark Levin's Liberty Amendments?

8 posted on 11/15/2013 4:59:14 PM PST by Jacquerie (An Article V amendment convention is our only hope.)
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