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Elbridge Gerrys Salamander - The Electoral Consequences of the Reapportionment Revolution

Both state legislative and congressional districts were redrawn more comprehensively - by far - than at any previous time in Americas history. Moreover, they changed what would happen at law should a state government fail to enact a new districting plan when one was legally required.The Supreme Courts reapportionment decisions, beginning with Baker v. Carr in 1962, had far more than jurisprudential consequences.. They sparked a massive wave of extraordinary redistricting in the apparent advantage