The Role of the Federal Courts in the Reapportionment of State Legislatures

This is the winning essay in the 1964 Ross Prize Essay Competition, conducted annually by the American Bar Association pursuant to the bequest of the late Judge Erskine M. Ross. The contest was open to all members of the Association (except officers and employees), and it closed prior to the Supreme Court's decisions in the reapportionment cases. The judges were Sylvester C. Smith, Jr., of West Orange, New Jersey; Judge Richard H. Chambers of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; and Dean F. D. G. Ribble of the University of Virginia School of Law.