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One advocate for the amendments, James Madison, wrote in 1823 that the district plan "was mostly, if not exclusively, in view when the Constitution was framed and adopted." [8] Between 1813 and 1824 the Senate approved amendments for the district plan four different times, and the House approved a separate amendment in 1820. None of the ...
Thornburg v. Gingles, 478 U.S. 30 (1986), was a United States Supreme Court case in which a unanimous Court found that "the legacy of official discrimination ... acted in concert with the multimember districting scheme to impair the ability of "cohesive groups of black voters to participate equally in the political process and to elect candidates of their choice."
A district plan is a statutory planning document of New Zealand's territorial authorities. Mainly covering land use / zoning questions, they have been required since the advent of the Resource Management Act 1991 . [ 1 ]
The district plan would have awarded him 11 of its 21 electoral votes, a 52.4% which was much closer to the popular vote percentage. [ 238 ] [ 239 ] The plan later lost support. [ 240 ] Other Republicans, including Michigan state representative Pete Lund , [ 241 ] RNC Chairman Reince Priebus , and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker , have floated ...
Home rule in the United States relates to the authority of a constituent part of a U.S. state to exercise powers of governance; i.e.: whether such powers must be specifically delegated to it by the state (typically by legislative action) or are generally implicitly allowed unless specifically denied by state-level action.
Territorial jurisdiction in United States law refers to a court's power over events and persons within the bounds of a particular geographic territory. If a court does not have territorial jurisdiction over the events or persons within it, then the court cannot bind the defendant to an obligation or adjudicate any rights involving them.
Proponents of the compact, such as law professors Akhil and Vikram Amar (the compact's original framers), [99] as well as U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin from Maryland's 8th congressional district (a former law professor), [100] have argued that states have the plenary power to appoint electors in accordance with the national popular vote ...
The Reedy Creek Improvement Act, otherwise known as House Bill No. 486, [1] was a law introduced and passed in the U.S. state of Florida in 1967 establishing the area surrounding the Walt Disney World Resort (the Reedy Creek Improvement District) as its own county governmental authority, which granted it the same authority and responsibilities as a county government.