Representation and Inequality in Late Nineteenth-century America : The Politics of Apportionment (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. 'Injustices and inequities': the politics of apportionment, 1870?89; 2. 'One irrevocable duty': democrats and reapportionment, 1889?93; 3. 'The time has come to make a precedent': Wisconsin, 1891?2; 4. 'Fought out in the courts': Michigan, 1891?2; 5. 'Partisanship has run riot': Indiana, 1892?4; 6. 'An ineradicable vice': Wisconsin, 1893?6; 7. 'The consequences of their own folly': Indiana, 1894?8; 8. 'A state of uncertainty': Illinois, 1893?8; 9. 'Our system of representative government': from chaos to control; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.