Town of Greenburgh v. Board of Supervisors

This action is one of many which have been prompted by recent decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States which have pronounced the rule that the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that seats in our State Legislatures be apportioned on a population basis, under the principle of “ one person, one vote ” (see Gray v. Sanders, 372 U. S. 368). We have been told by the Supreme Court that legislators represent people, not trees or acres, and are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests; that the right of suffrage is a fundamental matter in a…