Download or read book Iowa Journal of History and Politics, Vol. 1 written by State Historical Society of Iowa and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Iowa Journal of History and Politics, Vol. 1: Pt. 2; 1903, July-Dec On the eleventh of November, 1891, the Board of Super visors 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 govern ment. 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.