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- Title: Apportionment and the Right to Vote "Fair and Foul".
- Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 290 KB
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Article I of the American Constitution vests all legislative powers granted therein to a Congress which consists of two chambers: a Senate composed of two Senators from each state elected, after 1913, by the people in statewide elections, and a House of Representatives. (1) The Article specifies three rules regarding the elective process of members to the House. Section 2 provides that the number of representatives to be elected from each state shall be apportioned by Congress to the states on a population basis and that the representatives shall be chosen by the people of the several states. Section 4 states that times, places and manner of holding elections for representatives "shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof, but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations ..." (2) The Framers were not unaware of the difficulties attendant to drafting an equitable election law and believed that under the concept of federalism and inherent differences in national and state interests, a discretionary power ought to reside in one or the other legislative bodies. (3) Alexander Hamilton, in The Federalist, saw the need for compromise on who would have the constitutional authority to regulate elections: