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[opinion of S.J. Court]

been foreseen that no arrangements could produce a representation precisely proportional to numbers. It was doubtless contemplated also, that in the advancing settlement and population of the state, some counties would increase in numbers more rapidly than others. and it was readily perceivable, that as every apportionment made by the Legislature must continue five years and may continue ten, in the intervals of successive apportionments an inequality of representation in the house of Representatives would necessarily arise. The provision in the Constitution on the construction of which own opinion is required, was, we apprehend therefore, introduced with a view to obviate, in some degree, this inequality, by anticipating its process and guarding against its effects.