ABSTRACT

A not-unexpected revelation of the 1960 census placed Maryland near the top of a list of the worst-apportioned states in the nation. It has been suggested that the decennial census exposures trigger the periodic and, until now, ineffective protests against the prevailing scheme, since the protests have usually been separated by a decade. Just as after the 1950 census, there is now another ground-swell of opinion among the "outs" against the apportionment of the Maryland General Assembly.