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IN RE LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTING OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY

No. 53764.

175 N.W.2d 20 (1970)

In the Matter of the LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTING OF the GENERAL ASSEMBLY of Iowa as Enacted By the 63rd General Assembly (House File 781). Clark R. RASMUSSEN, Margaret A. Schroeder, Willie J. O'Neal, Jacky L. Adams and Robert W. Burke, Applicants, Robert RAY, Governor, Richard C. Turner, Attorney General, Melvin Synhorst, Secretary of State, Carrol Lane, Secretary of the Senate of the 63rd G. A., and William Kendrick, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the 63rd G. A., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

February 10, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry M. Smith, Sioux City, Dan Johnston, Des Moines, for applicants.

Richard C. Turner, Atty. Gen., Elizabeth A. Nolan, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Richard E. Haesemeyer, Sol. Gen., for respondents.

MASON, Justice.

This is an original proceeding before this court to review the constitutionality of the apportionment of Iowa's legislature under chapter 89, Acts of the Sixty-third General Assembly. This chapter, referred to in the record as House File 781, apportions the Senate and House of Representatives membership of the General Assembly for the 1970 elections.

Article III, section 34, of the Iowa Constitution, as amended November 5, 1968, provides:<...

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