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Encyclopedia Articles on: gerrymander

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  • Gerrymander
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    GERRYMANDER jer eman d r, ger , in politics, rearrangement of voting districts...was governor. See E. C. Griffith, The Rise and Development of the Gerrymander (1907, repr. 1974). ____________________ Copyright...
     
  • Gerry, Elbridge
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...in their favor in a grotesque salamanderlike shape, a political maneuver then named by his opponents and since known as a gerrymander (from his name and salamander). Gerry was defeated for reelection in 1812, but he was immediately nominated by the Jeffersonians...
     
  • Legislative Apportionment
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...responsible for drawing up districts for the purpose of electing representatives to Congress. Gerrymandering often resulted (see gerrymander ). In some states legislatures did not redistrict, despite population shifts, for as many as sixty years. This was the...