| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1965 - 1366 pagina’s
...of our form of government. Adhe principle of one-person-one-vote, the Court declares, "Legislators people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms r economic interests." The Court sets up alternatives and chooses one, hat our Nation is people, not... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1968 - 260 pagina’s
...different interpretation of how these proposals would affect federal-state relations. • Ibid., p. 568. Legislators represent people, not trees or acres....and unimpaired fashion is a bedrock of our political system.1 The Chief Justice also argued : . . . The right of a citizen to equal representation and to... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1968 - 688 pagina’s
...dissenting opinion. Id. at 71-71 nL 110 Id. at 71. 71 377 US 533 (1964). "/<*- at 55373 Id. at 553 n.»s. 74 "Legislators represent people, not trees or acres....voters, not farms or cities or economic interests." Id. at 561. 75 Id. at 565. "/</. at 566. 77 Id. at 568. tion in the Federal Congress was adopted."... | |
| 1970 - 906 pagina’s
...case thus served to give additional emphasis to the oft-quoted central statement of Reynolds v. Sims: "Legislators represent people, not trees or acres....elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests."19 Quoting an earlier case, Chief Justice Warren in the Reynolds case reduced the proposition... | |
| Alexander M. Bickel - 1978 - 236 pagina’s
...legislature, or under the Georgia county-unit system, elect a governor. The Chief Justice proclaimed: "Legislators represent people, not trees or acres....voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. . . . Logically, in a society ostensibly grounded on representative government, it would seem reasonable... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs - 1979 - 590 pagina’s
...or economic interests. As long as ours is a representative form of government, and our legislators are those instruments of government elected directly...unimpaired fashion is a bedrock of our political system . . . . (I)fa State should provide that the votes of citizens in one part of the State should be given... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs - 1979 - 578 pagina’s
...and with assurances that the vote of each one would count as much as the next person's. He stated: Legislators represent people, not trees or acres....ours is a representative form of government, and our legislators are those instruments of government elected directly by and directly representative of... | |
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