In 1964, a federal court ruled that Connecticut’s one-representative-per-town House system violated the emerging constitutional standard of equal representation. The United States reapportionment revolution pushed the state to amend its…
In 1886, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Yick Wo v. Hopkins that a San Francisco laundry ordinance was unconstitutionally applied. The decision established that the Fourteenth Amendment protects…
In 1992, Colorado voters passed Amendment 2, a controversial measure that prohibited the state and its municipalities from granting protected status to individuals based on sexual orientation. The United States…
