Rhode Island General Assembly Reapportionment and Redistricting records General Assembly (Rhode Island) Reapportionment and Redistricting records 1883-2002 (bulk 1970-2002)

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Rhode Island General Assembly Reapportionment and Redistricting records General Assembly (Rhode Island) Reapportionment and Redistricting records 1883-2002 (bulk 1970-2002)

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The Rhode Island General Assembly Reapportionment and Redistricting records consist of the records of the General Assembly’s Reapportionment Commission (2001) including official maps, transcripts, videocassettes of Commission proceedings and the records of Elmer E. Cornwall (House Parliamentarian (1977-2002) and was the House of Representatives' chief expert on Constitutional Conventions; Reapportionment and Municipal Home Rule Charters.

17.7 cubic feet other and 123 maps

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Rhode Island State Archives

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Following each decennial Census of the United States, Rhode Island, like most states, must redraw existing congressional and state legislative districts based on the principal of one-person, one-vote. While the ultimate responsibility for the redrawing process lies with the Rhode Island Legislature, this decade, like in 1990, the Legislature has established a Special Commission on Reapportionment. The Commission recommended plans for congressional, senatorial and repres...