Opinion of the Justices

3 Citing cases

  1. Scholle v. Secretary of State

    360 Mich. 1 (Mich. 1960)   Cited 19 times
    In Scholle v. Hare, 1960, 360 Mich. 1, 104 N.W.2d 63, the Supreme Court of Michigan held that an amendment to the state Constitution establishing state senatorial districts substantially unequal in population and voting power did not violate the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.

    The town unit of representation still exists in limited form in some areas. See Opinions of Justices, 101 N.H. 523 ( 132 A.2d 411). As counsel for the defendants has so painstakingly set forth in his appendix, the county still forms the basis for representation in many State senates.

  2. Petition of Below

    151 N.H. 135 (N.H. 2004)   Cited 18 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Rejecting Salazar's reasoning in interpreting a similar congressional redistricting provision of the New Hampshire constitution

    Pursuant to the amendments from that convention, 600 inhabitants were required for the first representative and 1,200 were required for each additional representative. 1876 JOURNAL at 263; see also Opinion of the Justices, 101 N.H. 523, 524 (1957). The number of town or city ward inhabitants would be determined according to the "last general census of the state, taken by authority of the United States or of this state."

  3. Levitt v. Attorney General

    104 N.H. 100 (N.H. 1962)   Cited 5 times

    Const., Pt. I, Art. 11th. While in Opinion of the Justices, 101 N.H. 523, we advised the Senate that the Legislature could not by legislative act provide for representation of each town and ward in the House of Representatives at each session of the Legislature, because of the requirements of Articles 9th and 11th of Part II of the Constitution, the proponents of the bill concerning which advice was sought placed no special reliance upon Article 11th of the Bill of Rights, and it was not expressly referred to by the opinion. Nor was the validity of the adoption of Articles 9th and 11th as amendments to the Constitution then called in question.