Representation and inequality in late nineteenth-century America : the politics of apportionment / Peter H. Argersinger, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
"Injustices and inequities": the politics of apportionment, 1870-1888 -- "One irrevocable duty": democrats and reapportionment, 1889-1893 -- "The time has come to make a precedent": Wisconsin, 1891-1892 -- "Fought out in the courts": Michigan, 1891-1893 -- "Partisanship has run riot": Indiana, 1892-1894 -- "An ineradicable vice": Wisconsin, 1893-1896 -- "The consequences of their own folly": Indiana, 1894-1898 -- "A state of uncertainty": Illinois, 1893-1898 -- "Our system of popular representative government": from chaos to control
Summary
"This book examines fierce conflicts over apportionment and gerrymandering in the late nineteenth-century Midwest"-- Provided by publisher
