Legal Opinion
Hovet v. Myers
Oregon Supreme Court
Decided September 30, 1971PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*154DENECKE, J.
Petitioners have requested this court to review a plan for the reapportionment of the state legislature submitted by the Secretary of State.
In 1952 the people of Oregon adopted by initiative an amendment to Art IV, § 6, of the State Constitution known as the “Apportionment Enforcement Amendment.” The Amendment provides that the legislature shall apportion the state legislature in the session following the federal census. If the legislature fails to reapportion itself, the Secretary of State is required to do so. The legislature failed to reapportion and the Secretary of State did…
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