Representation and inequality in late nineteenth-century America : the politics of apportionment / / Peter H. Argersinger.

"This book examines fierce conflicts over apportionment and gerrymandering in the late nineteenth-century Midwest"--

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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:x, 340 p.
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1. "Injustices and inequities": the politics of apportionment, 1870-1889; 2. "One irrevocable duty": democrats and reapportionment, 1889-1893; 3. "The time has come to make a precedent": Wisconsin, 1891-1892; 4. "Fought out in the courts": Michigan, 1891-1892; 5. "Partisanship has run riot": Indiana, 1892-1894; 6. "An ineradicable vice": Wisconsin, 1893-1896; 7. "The consequences of their own folly": Indiana, 1894-1898; 8. "A state of uncertainty": Illinois, 1893-1898; 9. "Our system of representative government": from chaos to control.