Opinion to the Senate

Advisory Opinion requested by Senate as to whether State constitution violated United States Constitution and the “one man one vote” doctrine, considered and the justices refrain from answering question.

December 28, 1970.

To the Honorable, the Senate of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

On April 16, 1970, we received from the Honorable Senate a certified copy of Senate Resolution S 598, passed by the Senate at the January Session, A. D. 1970 on the fifteenth day of April 1970, requesting in accordance with the provisions of section 2 of article XII of amendments to the…