Constitutional Provisions for State Legislative Apportionment

Abstract

TflHE PROBLEM of studying government in the American states is to describe it accurately without becoming so engrossed in its bewildering variety as to lose all sight of the pattern it forms. There have been many excellent descriptions written of legislative apportionment systems in the various states and the political battles that have developed over them. It is just as important to bring together these various systems, catalogue them, and fit them into some rational pattern.