Uintah Basin Standard | 1965-05-20 | Page 2 | Restore State Authority

RESTORE STATE AUTHORITY THIS COUNTRY HAS MANY diverse and social interests a fact so that it seems Yet it was ignored by the Supreme Court when it held that seats In both houses of state legislatures must be apportioned solely on a population THE PROBLEMS OF A RURAL farming area are hardly the same as those of the big Does the the the fisherman fall into the same or can all of us be lumped with the city subway riders and apartment THE EVER-CHANGING can never be solved through the questionable assumption that sparsely settled parts of a state have less at stake than densely populated If state legislatures are to be constituted on a this could result in gross discrimination against lesser populated IN A TRULY REPRESENTATIVE government one house If so decided by its citizens should represent all the elements of a state and should not be forced into drawing its membership chiefly from the densely populated WE BELIEVE THAT strong support should be given to the proposal before Congress to restore to the states their traditional authority to apportion their legislatures on a basis reflecting geographic as well as population IF VE ARE TO MAINTAIN our republican form of government In Its truest the theory must be cast