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Quotation from Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. by Supreme Court of the United States
“If, in the changes of wealth and population in particular states, apportionment produced inequality, it was an inequality stipulated for, just as the equal representation of the states, however small, in the senate, was stipulated for.”
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., Opinion of the Court on rehearing (Chief Justice Fuller) (U.S. Reports text (Legal Information Institute))
Chief Justice Fuller defends apportionment as a deliberate bargain of the Constitutional Convention.
Citation: "If, in the changes of wealth and population in particular states, apportionment produced inequality, it was an inequality stipulated for, just as the equal representation of the states, however small, in the senate, was stipulated for." — Supreme Court of the United States, Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., Opinion of the Court on rehearing (Chief Justice Fuller) (U.S. Reports text (Legal Information Institute)). (id pollock-v-farmers-loan-and-trust-q1)
Portrait: Melville Weston Fuller Chief Justice 1908, Theodore C. Marceau, Public domain.
