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Question: Is malapportionment ever justifiable?
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No
 
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Can have small deviations to preserve communities of interest (without systematically favouring any group)
 
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Can have systematic favouring of some groups (e.g. rural electorates)
 
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Can have one chamber of a bicameral legislature (e.g. US Senate)
 
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Other (please state)
 
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SmokingCricket
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« on: May 13, 2011, 08:38:01 PM »

If you have a bicameral legislature with fairly equal power given to both branches (like the US but not the UK), then I think malapportionment is possibly justifiable on the grounds that the lower house would most likely be based on population/majority.

That said I favor unicameral legislatures that are all-powerful for the functions of the legislative (and perhaps the executive if you want a Parliamentary system), and unicameral legislatures should never be malapportioned.
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