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  2. County unit system - Wikipedia

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    Though the county unit system had informally been used since 1898, it was formally enacted by the Neill Primary Act of 1917. The system was ostensibly designed to function similarly to the Electoral College, and so in practice the large ratio of unit votes for small, rural counties to unit votes for more populous urban areas provided outsized political influence to the smaller counties.

  3. Gray v. Sanders - Wikipedia

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    Gray v. Sanders, 372 U.S. 368 (1963), was a Supreme Court of the United States case dealing with equal representation in regard to the American election system and formulated the famous "one person, one vote" standard applied in this case for "counting votes in a Democratic primary election for the nomination of a United States Senator and statewide officers — which was practically ...

  4. Courts of Georgia (U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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    Georgia Superior Courts (49 judicial circuits) [3] Georgia State-wide Business Court [4] Georgia State Courts [5] Georgia Magistrate Courts [6] Georgia Juvenile Courts [7] Georgia Probate Courts [8] Georgia Municipal Courts [9] Federal courts located in Georgia. United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (headquartered in Atlanta ...

  5. Electoral reform in Georgia (U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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    The white primary was abolished in the 1946 case King v. Chapman. [1] On July 24, 1919, after Congress passed it, Georgia became the first state to reject the ratification of the Woman Suffrage Amendment with both houses passing resolutions against it. After Tennessee became the 38th and final state needed to ratify the amendment in August 1920 ...

  6. Judiciary of Georgia (U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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    Georgia Magistrate Courts [7] Georgia Juvenile Courts [8] Georgia Probate Courts [9] Georgia Municipal Courts [10] The highest judiciary power in Georgia is the Supreme Court, which is composed of nine justices. [11] The state also has a Court of Appeals made of 15 judges. [11] Georgia is divided into 49 judicial circuits, each of which has a ...

  7. Georgia Superior Courts - Wikipedia

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    There is also a business court in the Fulton County (Atlanta) Superior Court, the Metro Atlanta Business Case Division. [2] [3] This business court track was originally created in 2005 by the judges of the Fulton County Superior Court as approved by Georgia's Supreme Court, via Judicial Circuit Rule 1004.

  8. United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

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    The United States District Court for the District of Georgia was one of the original 13 courts established by the Judiciary Act of 1789, 1 Stat. 73, on September 24, 1789. [1] The District was subdivided into Northern and Southern Districts on August 11, 1848, by 9 Stat. 280 .

  9. Wilson v. State - Wikipedia

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    Twelve years later, Georgia's Supreme Court would, however, find that the same law upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court was unconstitutional on state constitutional grounds, at least as applied to oral sex with persons over the age of consent (Powell v. Georgia, S98A0755, 270 Ga. 327, 510 S.E. 2d 18 (1998)).

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