The Wisconsin Gerrymanders of 1891 and 1892: A Chapter in State Constitutional History (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Wisconsin Gerrymanders of 1891 and 1892: A Chapter in State Constitutional History

Eight days later the petition of the District Attorney of Adams county was filed, setting forth specifically the wrongs of which the complaint was made. On the day following, the security for costs was furnished by Adams county; on the twenty-first, the attorney-general notified the attorney for the petitioner that application has been made to the Supreme Court to begin an action for the purposes prayed for in its petition; and on the second of February the court granted leave to bring suit.

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Excerpt from The Wisconsin Gerrymanders of 1891 and 1892: A Chapter in State Constitutional History

On the eleventh of November, 1891, the Board of Supervisors of Adams county in the State of Wisconsin instructed the District Attorney of that county to institute proceedings in the courts of the State to the end that judgment might be rendered, declaring null and void the act of the legislature of 1891 which apportioned the State into senatorial and assembly districts, on the ground that this apportionment invaded the rights of the people by depriving them of equal representation in the legislative branch of the government, that it aimed to substitute the will of the minority for that of the majority, and that its provisions were unconstitutional and, therefore, directly subversive of representative government. The population of the State having been ascertained by the federal enumeration of 1890, as required by the State Constitution, it became the duty of the legislature to apportion and to redistrict the members of the Senate and Assembly according to the number of inhabitants, excluding soldiers and officers of the United States army and navy, and Indians not taxed.

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