By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
Posted on Thu Jul 12, 2012 at 06:21:51 PM EST
Tags: Electoral College, presidential elections, Congressional Apportionment Amendment, Article the First, Apportionment Act of 1911, Reapportionment Act of 1929, Apportionment Act of 1941, U. S. House of Representatives, decennial census, apportionment methodology, LaVergne v Bryson et al - Docket # 12-1171, U. S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, potentially Amendment XXVIII (all tags)
What do you do with a duly ratified amendment to the U. S. Constitution that has not actually been added to the Constitution? What do you do if that amendment potentially renders unconstitutional a long-standing federal statute (that has been in place for about 91 years)? What do you do if that amendment, which was properly ratified 220 years ago, may have prevented the federal statute in question from having been enacted in the first place?
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