Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1966
Keywords
Reapportionment, Legislative apportionment, Federalism, Supreme Court
Disciplines
Constitutional Law | Courts | Jurisprudence | Law and Politics
Abstract
The reapportionment cases have been considered by many to be the product of a liberal, activist Court which is endeavoring to reshape America’s political life according to its own views. The authors of this article assert that, to the contrary, the Court actually is reacting to the incontrovertible fact of the modern predominance of urban complexities which have rendered inappropriate our older political boundaries. In this sense, they consider the Court’s decisions conservative rather than liberal- because the Court’s purpose is to maintain a version of federalism along state boundaries which may have become outmoded even before the Court entered the arena.
Recommended Citation
Roberts, E. F. and Shultz, Paul T. III, "The Reapportionment Cases: Cognitive Lag, the Malady and its Cure" (1966). Cornell Law Faculty Publications. 1256.
https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/1256
Publication Citation
Published in: Cornell Law Review, vol. 27, no. 3 (March 1966).
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