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by tptacek 3266 days ago
Doesn't the Constitution afford the states the prerogative to decide how to allocate their representatives? Would a federal law imposing this structure be constitutional?
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Section 4 of the US constitution, the federal congress is allowed to make regulations on how elections are handled that supersede the states - the only exception is the places which elections are held, that power rests fully with the state itself.
The current system is already mandated by federal law passed in 1967. http://archive.fairvote.org/library/history/flores/district....