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For purposes of equally apportioning congressional representation, must congressional districts have the same total population or some different population that produces the same number of votes cast in each district?

For purposes of equally apportioning congressional representation, must congressional districts have the same total population -- the number of residents within each district -- or some different population that produces the same number of votes cast in each district? After identifying an interesting choice between two conceptions of democratic equality, "electoral equality" and "equal representation," a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued today finds it unnecessary to resolve that choice in the context of the case under review.

Full post as published by How Appealing on September 09, 2008 (boomark / email).

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