Legal Opinion
Brown v. Thomson
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 22, 1983No. 82-65PublishedCited by 274 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Powell
The issue is whether the State of Wyoming violated the Equal Protection Clause by allocating one of the 64 seats in its House of Representatives to a county the population of which is considerably lower than the average population per state representative.
I
Since Wyoming became a State in 1890, its legislature has consisted of a Senate and a House of Representatives. The State’s Constitution provides that each of the State’s counties “shall constitute a senatorial and representative district” and that “[e]ach county shall have at least one senator and one representative.” The senators and…
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