In Re Apportionment of State Legislature—1964

I concur in major substance with the carefully considered opinion of Mr. Justice Dethmers and for the reasons he has therein assigned. Specifically: I reject the Austin-Kleiner plan as *447being violative' of the plain mandate in article 4 to ■apportion and district in accordance with the terms ■of that article. I reject the Brown plan as over-weighing the maintenance of existing senatorial -districts. I reject the contention that the upper and lower peninsulas are contiguous by land within the meaning of the 1963 Constitution. I do not consider Scholle v. Secretary of State, 367 Mich 176, as…