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• Voting Rights Act : the judicial evolution of the retrogression standard : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, November 9, 2005. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voting Rights Act : section 5 of the Act, history, scope, and purpose : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, October 25, 2005. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voting Rights Act : evidence of continued need : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, March 8, 2006. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)

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• A Citizen Legislature (1985), by Ernest Callenbach and Michael Phillips (HTML at well.com)
• Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century (2020), by American Academy of Arts and Sciences (PDF and illustrated HTML with commentary at amacad.org)
• By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy Through Deliberative Elections (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), by John Gastil (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Partisan Gerrymandering and the Construction of American Democracy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2013), by Erik J. Engstrom
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
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  • PDF files at JSTOR
• A Plea for the Introduction of Responsible Government and the Representation of Capital Into the United States as Safeguards Against Communism and Disunion (Springfield, IL: Printed for the author by J. C. Hughes, 1879), by Van Buren Denslow (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Public and republic : political representation in America (Knopf, 1951), by Alfred De Grazia (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cases before the Court; a compilation of jurisdictional statements submitted in the eight cases [on legislative apportionment and congressional districting] accepted for hearing during the October 1963 term of the Supreme Court of the United States. (New York, 1963), by United States Supreme Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instead of dictatorship (John Day Company, 1933), by Henry Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts suggested by recent attacks on representative government (s.n.], 1912), by Sidney Corning Eastman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States regarding the appointment of individuals to fill vacancies in the House of Representatives : adverse report together with dissenting views (to accompany H.J. Res. 83) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2004), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voting Rights Act : an examination of the scope and criteria for coverage under the special provisions of the act : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, October 20, 2005. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voting Rights Act, section 5 : preclearance standards : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, November 1, 2005. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
• Understanding the benefits and costs of Section 5 pre-clearance : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, May 17, 2006. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• The continuing need for Section 5 pre-clearance : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, May 16, 2006. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• A plea for the introduction of responsible government and the representation of capital into the United States as safeguards against communism and disunion (Printed for the author by J.C. Hughes, 1879), by Van Buren Denslow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Representative democracy in the United States: an address delivered before the Senate of Union college, on the 26th July, 1841. (Printed by C. Van Benthuysen, 1841), by Benjamin F. Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Radical reconstruction on the basis of one sovereign republic : with dependent states and territories, uniformly constituted throughout the public domain, and with the corruptions of party politics abolished : being an address delivered at an interior town in Nevada, and printed by request as an appeal to all Americans for new nationality with the South and Russian America, looking also to union with Mexico and Canada. (Russell & Winterburn, printers, 1867) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Your committee beg leave to report : that they consider the confederation as a compact between sovereignties for mutual good ([New York :, 1786), by United States Continental Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voting rights : hearings before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first and second sessions, October 14, 1993, May 11, and 25, 1994. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights (page images at HathiTrust)
• Estudios sobre los Estados Unidos de América : la democracia y el self-government (Librería de A. Durán, 1865), by Antonio Angulo Heredia and Société des agriculteurs de France (page images at HathiTrust)
• Direct representation, or, How the control of city government, now lost by the people, may be regained (The author, 1905), by Howard B. Arrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address by Judge Alton B. Parker (Govt. print. off., 1922), by Alton Brooks Parker, Samuel Morgan Shortridge, and United States Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• True progress ... : Speech of Hon. Henry F. Ashurst of Arizona in the Senate of the United States : Sixty-second Congress, third session : In defense of initiative and referendum : January 2, 1913. ([Government Printing Office], 1913), by Henry Fountain Ashurst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poll Tax and Enfranchisement of D.C. : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments, Eighty-Sixth Congress, first session, on Aug. 17, 27, 1959. (U.S. G.P.O., 1959), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments (page images at HathiTrust)
• Congressional Representation for D.C. : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments, Eighty-Seventh Congress, second session, on May 23, 25, 1962. (U.S. G.P.O., 1962), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proportional representation (Macmillan, 1907), by John R. Commons (page images at HathiTrust)
• National self-government in Europe and America (Trübner & Co., 1870), by J. W. Probyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Congressional and state legislative redistricting and racial vote dilution under section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 1991), by Thomas M. Durbin and Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Representation in state legislatures : including a comparative study of the legislatures of 1899 (s.n., 1900), by George Henry Haynes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Popular government : four essays. (Murray, 1909), by Henry Sumner Maine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Representation in Congress : Speech of Hon. Richard Yates, of Illinois, delivered in the Senate of the United States, June 11, 1868. (F. & J. Rives & Geo. A. Bailey, 1868), by Richard Yates (page images at HathiTrust)

• Critical pluralism, democratic performance, and community power (University Press of Kansas, 1991), by Paul Schumaker (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Color of Representation: Congressional Behavior and Black Interests (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1997), by Kenny J. Whitby (page images at HathiTrust)

• Devaluation of the Urban and Suburban Vote: A Statistical Investigation of Long-Term Trends in State Legislative Representation (2 volumes in 1; Charlottesville, VA: Bureau of Public Administration, University of Virginia, 1961-1962), by Paul T. David and Ralph Eisenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Party and representation : legislative politics in Pennsylvania (Atherton Press, 1963), by Frank J. Sorauf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apportionment and representative government. (Praeger, 1963), by Alfred De Grazia (page images at HathiTrust)

• Counting the Vote: Should Only U.S. Citizens Be Included in Apportioning Our Elected Representatives? Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Federalism and the Census of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, First Session, December 6, 2005 (Washington: GPO, 2006), by United State House Committee on Government Reform
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• Partisan Gerrymandering and the Construction of American Democracy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2013), by Erik J. Engstrom
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• A Citizen's Guide to Redistricting (c2010), by Justin Levitt, contrib. by Erika Wood (PDF at brennancenter.org)
• 2010 Census, Reducing the Undercount in the Hispanic Community: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, July 9, 2007 (Washington: GPO, 2008), by United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
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• Exclude Aliens in the Enumeration of the Census for the Purposes of Apportionment: Hearings Before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Seventy-First Congress, Third Session, on H.J. Res. 20, 101, 356, and 484, Serial 16, Jan. 14, 21, 28, 29, 1931, by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alien Census Count: Hearing Before a Subcommitee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Seventy-Ninth Congress, First Session, on S.J. Res. 85, A Joint Resolution Proposing to Amend the Constitution of the United States to Exclude Aliens in Counting the Whole Number of Persons in Each State for Apportionment of Representatives Among the Several States (Washington: GPO, 1945), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Congressional districting; the issue of equal representation. (Brookings Institution, 1963), by Andrew Hacker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The territorial basis of government under the state constitutions, local divisions and rules for legislative apportionment (Columbia University, 1911), by Alfred Zantzinger Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patterns of apportionment. (National Municipal League, 1962), by William J D Boyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Congressional anti-gerrymandering act of 1979 hearings before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session, on S. 596 ... June 20, 21, and July 10, 1979. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1979), by United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• 1980 census counting illegal aliens : hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Federal Services of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session, on S. 2366 ... March 26, 1980. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1980), by Nuclear Proliferation United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Energy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tabulation of population for purposes of apportionment of State legislative bodies hearings, Ninety-third Congress, first session, on H.R. 9290 .. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1974), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Census and Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tabulation of population for purposes of apportionment of state legislative bodies hearing before the Subcommittee on Census and Population of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, first session, on H.R. 1753 ... April 29, 1975. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Census and Population (page images at HathiTrust)
• Congressional reapportionment in 1961; a puzzle for Michigan. (Detroit, 1960), by Citizens Research Council of Michigan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voting Rights Act, section 5 : preclearance standards : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, November 1, 2005. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voting Rights Act : the continuing need for section 5 : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, October 25, 2005. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
• Understanding the benefits and costs of Section 5 pre-clearance : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, May 17, 2006. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• The continuing need for Section 5 pre-clearance : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, May 16, 2006. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern enforcement of the Voting Rights Act : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, May 10, 2006. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constitutionality of S. 1257 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2008), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• One man, one vote : a statement of basic principles of legislative apportionment as agreed upon at a conference of research scholars and political scientists held by the Twentieth Century Fund. (The Fund, 1962), by Twentieth Century Fund (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apportionment population and state representation : communication from the President of the United States transmitting his report on the apportionment population for each state as of April 1, 2000, and the number of representatives to which each state would be entitled, pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 2a(a) and 13 U.S.C. 141(b). (U.S. G.P.O., 2001), by United States. President (1993-2001 : Clinton), Bill Clinton, United State House Committee on Government Reform, and United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reapportionment and redistricting : papers presented at the annual conference of the Pennsylvania Political Science and Public Administration Association in Harrisburg, April 6 and 7, 1962. (Institute of Public Administration, Pennsylvania State University, 1962), by Pennsylvania Political Science and Public Administration Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Census activities and the decennial census : hearing before the Subcommittee on Census and Population of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session, on H.R. 1990 ... June 11, 1981. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1981), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Census and Population (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exclude undocumented residents from census counts used for apportionment : hearing before the Subcommittee on Census and Population of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session on H.R. 3639, H.R. 3814, and H.R. 4234 ... June 23, 1988. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1988), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Census and Population (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tabulation of population for purposes of apportionment of state legislative bodies : hearing before the Subcommittee on Census and Population of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, first session, on H.R. 1753 ... April 29, 1975. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Census and Population (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifteenth Decennial Census -- Apportionments of Representatives in Congress : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Seventy-First Congress, first session, on Apr. 18, 1929. (U.S. G.P.O., 1929), by United States Senate Committee on Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• To Amend the Constitution : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Seventieth Congress, second session, on Feb. 13, 14, 18, 1929. (U.S. G.P.O., 1929), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apportionment of Representatives in Congress : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on H.R. 2665, Seventy-Seventh Congress, first session, on Feb. 27, 28, Mar. 1, 1941. (U.S. G.P.O., 1941), by United States Senate Committee on Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apportionment of representatives : hearing before the Committee on the Census, House of Representatives, Seventieth Congress, first session on H.R. 130, February 14, 15, 20, and 21, 1928. (U.S. G.P.O., 1928), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
• The case of E.W. Cole : hearings before Committee on Elections No. 2, House of Representatives, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session, on the claim of E.W. Cole to a seat in the House of Representatives as a representative at large from the state of Texas, March 18, 1924. (G.P.O., 1924), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Elections No. 2 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Population trends and Congressional apportionment. (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census, 1991), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
• Political redistricting : the role of computer technology (Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, 1973), by Library of Congress. Science Policy Research Division and Robert Lee Chartrand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Congressional redistricting : legal framework ([Washington, D.C.] : The Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, Major Issues System, [1980], 1980), by Michael V. Seitzinger and Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apportionment on State Legislatures; report, together with individual view, to accompany S.J. Res. 103. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1966), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Coverage of population in the 1970 census and some implications for public programs (U.S. Bureau of the Census : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1975), by Jacob S Siegel and Census Advisory Committee on the Black Population for the 1980 Census (page images at HathiTrust)

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