Talk:Reynolds v. Sims

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This article would be improved with a reference to who Reynolds and Sims actually were. 35.10.230.213 14:50, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

I’ll do that Bob6667 (talk) 19:16, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

redirect
A redirect would be useful for this page, as many other court cases (Gideon v. Wainwright, Engel v. Vitale, etc) have redirects if the exact article name isn't typed in the search. I would add one, but I don't know how to do that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.77.111.193 (talk) 22:22, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Who was Reynolds, who was Sims?
Not mentioned in the article. Seems pertinent. DemonDays64 (talk) 03:45, 13 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Surprisingly difficult to chase down, but added. PianoDan (talk) 18:49, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

A bit of history would be helpful
The Federal government was a creation of the state legislatures.

The original intent of the United States Constitution was that Senators would represent their state legislatures, and representatives would represent the people of the state. That was changed by Amendment XVII.

Almost all state constitutions were written before Amendment XVII. The constitutions of many bicameral states were based upon the same principle, writ small: State Senators would represent a county coumcil or county board of supervisors or whatever the state called the county governmental entity, and members of the state assembly would represent the people of the state in their legislature.

Had the Warren court read this history, Earl Warren might have written that Senators don't represent counties, instead of "acres or trees."

At both the Federal and State level, having different structures, one of people's representatives, and one of the representatives of the next smaller governing body, were designed to curb mobocracy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.229.160.187 (talk) 22:25, 27 April 2022 (UTC)