1. How will the efficiency gap described above help future politicians end the negative impact of
gerrymandering? Explain.
2. The term comes from Elbridge Gerry, a Massachusetts governor who helped draw the
boundaries of a congressional district so misshapen and blatantly one-sided that one critic
said the map looked like a salamander (lizard). "No," another replied, "a gerrymander.”
What danger might these oddly shaped districts pose that might make the cartoonist see
them as monsters?
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Many scholars and observers have argued that the ratification of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution has become the single most important act in all of united states politics. (a) identify which provision of the fourteenth amendment was applied to the following supreme court cases. for each case, explain the significance of the decision in united states politics. ' mapp v. ohio (1961) ' gideon v. wainwright (1963) (b) identify which provision of the fourteenth amendment was applied to the following supreme court cases. for each case, explain the significance of the decision in united states politics. ' brown v. board of education (1954) ' baker v. carr (1962) ' regents of the university of california v. bakke (1978)