Reapportionment of State Legislatures: Hearings Before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments, Eighty-Ninth Congress, First Session, on Mar. 3, 4, 9-11, 17, 18, Apr. 27-29, May 5-7, 14, 20, 21, 1965

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments

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Considers. S.J. Res. 2, to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to reserve to the people of each state power to determine the composition of its legislature and the apportionment of the membership thereof in accordance with law and the provisions of the U.S. Constitution. S.J. Res. 37 and S.J. Res. 38, to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to permit membership in one house of a state legislature composed of more than one house to be apportioned with the approval of the electorate upon a system other than that of equal representation. S.J. Res. 44, to amend the U.S. Constitution to permit any state to apportion one house of its legislature on factors other than population with the approval of a majority of its voters. Includes texts of Supreme Court decisions, p. 1025-1125.