It's On! Vermont Vs. Monsanto

[karynnj]

13. I was surprised recently to read that at some point in the past, every town

had 1 representative - no matter how big or small they were.

Until the mid-1960s Vermont’s constitution specified that each town, regardless of its population, had one representative in the House. Burlington’s sole House member represented more people than the 107 representatives from the 107 smallest towns. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1962 that “one town, one vote” apportionment violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and in 1964 the Vermont Supreme Court came to the same decision in the case of Buckley vs. Hoff. A year later Vermont’s legislators passed a plan for reapportionment, which cut the number of House members from 246 to 150.

http://www.freedomandunity.org/vt_transition/power_shifts.html