Legal Opinion
Clark v. Carter
District Court, E.D. Kentucky
Decided June 20, 1963No. 215PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
H. CHURCH FORD, Senior District Judge.
Pursuant to the Act of Congress of June 18, 1929, 46 Stat. 21-27 as amended by the Act of November 15, 1941, 55 Stat. 761, 2 U.S.C.A. § 2a, the number of representatives in the House of Congress to which the State of Kentucky was entitled under the decennial census of 1960 was reduced from eight to seven.
In providing for subsequent reapportionments, the above Acts of 1929 and 1941 omitted the previous legislative requirements as to compactness, contiguity and equality of population. It was manifestly the intention of the Congress not to reenact such…
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- Wood v. BroomSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
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