Scholle v. Secretary of State

This case involves the citizens’ right to vote. It involves, as well, their right to equality of representation in their legislature, “a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.”1

We have before us a petition for an original writ of mandamus directed to the defendant, the secretary of State. Through such writ the plaintiff seeks to prohibit the defendant from conducting the forthcoming State senatorial elections in accordance with *43the present system of senatorial districting. That system is prescribed in section 2 of article 5 of the Constitution of 1908, as amended at the…