Legal Opinion
Kalson v. Paterson
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 9, 2008No. Docket 07-1243-cvPublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:
I. Introduction
Article I of the U.S. Constitution establishes “the principle of a House of Representatives elected ‘by the People,’ a principle tenaciously fought for ... at the Constitutional Convention.” Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1, 8, 84 S.Ct. 526, 11 L.Ed.2d 481 (1964). There is, however, “no ‘We the People’ independent of the way the law constructs democracy.” Samuel Issacharoff, Pamela S. Karlan, & Richard H. Pildes, The Law of Democracy 2 (2d ed.2002). Legislatures and courts have therefore long struggled to implement and preserve this foundational…
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- Wesberry v. SandersSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
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