In the 1960s, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution required that districts in the same legislative chamber must be
a. "substantially equal" in population.
b. redrawn when a "significant change in the population occurs.".
c. redrawn every bicentennial.
d. increased when a state legislature votes with a two-thirds majority to redraw the districts.
a
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