Green v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. ““The G-eneral Assembly shall assign the cities and towns of the Commonwealth to the classes to which they respectively belong, and change assignments made as the population of said cities and towns may increase or decrease, and in the absence of other satisfactory information as to their population, shall be governed Dy the last preceding Federal census in so doing; but no city or town shall be transferred from one class to another except in pursuance of a law previously enacted and providing therefor.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Griffin v. Powell