Category: redistricting
Gerrymandering, Now a Motion Picture
04/18/11 | by Carolyn Jackson ![[mail]](img/envelope.gif)
| Categories: Politics, ACT NOW, state government, redistricting, voting rights
| Categories: Politics, ACT NOW, state government, redistricting, voting rights Elbridge Gerry signed the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation, but he refused to sign the Constitution because there was no Bill of Rights. He was our fifth vice president, but nationally he’s most remembered for his partisan act of drawing a congressional district in Massachusetts. He put most of the Federalists into a single district and kept the rest for his own Democratic-Republican party.
Today, we call the redrawing of district lines to give unfair advantage gerrymandering.
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