The Malapportionment Penalty MAP initiative is to "Democratize
the Electoral College" by enforcement of "the right to vote"
Reconstruction amendment (Amend. XIV§2 ) that mandates a state's
proportional allocation of presidential electors based on the popular
vote split or for the state to suffer a "Reduction of Representation"
in the electoral college / members to congress pursuant to
(2USC§6) .


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George Henry White
Member
of the
U.S.
House of Representatives
North
Carolina's 2nd district
White was elected to Congress in 1896. He was the
last former slave
to serve in Congress and by 1898 was the only African American in the
House of Representatives.
At the turn of the last Century, Congressman George Henry White
challenged the House to punish southern states for disfranchising
blacks by calling for a reduction in their congressional delegations. |
White’s appeal in
1899 that southern delegations to Congress ought to be limited to “the
benefit of the votes that are allowed to be cast in their
representation” initially fell on unsympathetic ears, despite his
declaration, “It is a question that this House must deal with some
time, sooner or later.” Derived from Section 2 of the 14th Amendment,
reduction legislation required Congress to penalize states that sought
to disqualify eligible voters by subtracting that class of
disfranchised voters from the population count used to determine the
number of seats each state was allotted in the House. At the high tide
of Radical Republican rule in the House, the chamber passed a measure
after the 1870 Census that required Congress to enforce that provision.
Section 6 of the Apportionment Act of February 2, 1872, provided a
mandate that the number of representatives apportioned to any state to
be proportionally reduced, if the right to vote is denied or abridged.
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Rep. Edgar D. Crumpacker
10th District Indiana

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THE FACTS OF RECONSTRUCTION
John R. Lynch
Copyright, 1913,
by The Neale
Publishing Company
John Roy Lynch (September 10, 1847 - November 2, 1939) was the first
African-American Speaker of the House in Mississippi. He was also one
of the first African-Americans elected to the U.S House of
Representatives during Reconstruction, the period in United States
history after the Civil War.
CHAPTER IX
WHAT CONSTITUTES
"NEGRO DOMINATION"*
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It is claimed
that in States, districts, and counties, in which the colored people
are in the majority, the suppression of the colored vote is necessary
to prevent "Negro Domination,"—to prevent the ascendency of the blacks
over the whites in the administration of the State and local
governments....
And this brings us to a consideration of the question, What is meant by
"Negro Domination?" The answer that the average reader would give to
that question would be that it means the actual, physical domination of
the blacks over the whites. But, according to a high Democratic
authority, that would be an incorrect answer. The definition given by
that authority I have every reason to believe is the correct one, the
generally accepted one. The authority referred to is the late Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Mississippi, H.H.
Chalmers, who, in an article in the North American Review about March,
1881, explained and defined what is meant or understood by the term
"Negro Domination."
According to Judge Chalmers' definition, in order to
constitute "Negro Domination" it does not necessarily follow that
negroes must be elected to office, but that in all elections in which
white men may be divided, if the negro vote should be sufficiently
decisive to be potential in determining the result, the white man or
men that would be elected through the aid of negro votes would
represent "Negro Domination." In other words, we would have "Negro
Domination" whenever the will of a majority of the whites would be
defeated through the votes of colored men. *
*"Negro Domination" phobia is the
motivation behind State Voter ID laws.
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CIVIL ACTIONS
PLEADINGS_THE HISTORY LEGACY:
"A
brief reflection on our past, in order
to illuminate our present, so as to gain informed insight into our
future."
Gordon et.al. v. Cheney/Biden (Jul. 28, 2008-10).
V.
The History of the United States Constitutional Franchise Founded on
Racial Quotas and Reconstruction Amendments Grounded in the Intent of
the Declaration Should Inform the Court In Its Resolution of This Case.
The original intent of the constitutional framers of
1787 was to establish an electoral franchise predicated on racial
quotas that disproportionately favored a southern white minority. ...
pp.22-38.
VI. The Attorney General Invokes The
Redemptionist Era Voting Rights Precedents that Reestablished Racial
Supremacy and Ended Reconstruction.
"Can we forget for whom we are forming a government?
Is it for men, or for the imaginary beings called States?"
James Wilson, author of U.S. Constitution. 30 June
1787.
...The Appellant's Brief warned that this
court should be guided by: [The] jurisprudence of "Textualism" weighted
and tempered by the "Original Intent" of the Reconstruction-era's
constitutional framers rather than undue reliance on legal precedents.
... Indeed case law precedents in this regard are fraught with the
danger of slippage into reliance on redemptionist-era court rulings
which sustained the reestablishment of racial supremacy....pp.39-44
Gordon et.al. v. Clerk of the United
States House of Representatives ( Jan. 3rd,
2011).
IV. THE ORIGINAL
INTENT OF THE RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS FRAMERS CONFIRMS PLAINTIFFS'
STANDING AND CAUSE FOR REDRESS BY THE CLERK. .. 19 _PP. 20-25
"Gordon noted that the spirit of the infamous 1787
constitutional compromise known as the "3/5ths clause" survives in our
time, that the Electoral College, as effected by the mechanism of
"winner take all," has rendered the descendants of enslaved blacks as
inert bodies who serve as little more than political ballast to inflate
Southern political power today.The specter of the 3/5ths compromise
that established an institutionalized Constitutional franchise by
racial quotas haunts every modern day presidential election. The
original Constitution's "covenant with death" that established an
augmented white elective prerogative is now preserved by "Winner take
All" in the unbounded former Confederate states ...
FOR INJUNCTIVE
RELIEF AND DECLARATORY RELIEF_PP.3-5
The "Negro" Electoral Slush Fund.
Let us be honest,
the purpose of the Electoral College was to create a Negro Electoral
Slush Fund to establish and sustain white supremacy, and a great deal
of our jurisprudence in this matter is in denial of this historical
truth. That is one other reason why this is a case of first impression,
it does not shy away from this historical legacy of infamy. ...
Winner-Take-All
Systems
“Winner-take-all” is a term used to describe
single member district and at large election systems that award seats
to the highest vote getters without ensuring fair representation for
minority groups. In the United States, these are typically
single-member district schemes or at-large, block-voting systems. Under
winner-take-all rules, a slim majority of voters can control 100% of
seats, leaving everyone else effectively without representation.
Winner-take-all systems are an anachronism in the modern world, as
nearly every emerging democracy has rejected their use. They were
introduced to America by the British during the colonial era, and are
virtually unknown in other developed countries. Their failings lie at
the root of many of our current political problems.
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At-large
voting denies voters an equally effective vote. At-large voting always
operates to "minimize or cancel out the voting strength of racial or
political elements of the voting population"[Fortson v. Dorsey, 379 U.S. 433,
439 (1965)] . At-large voting clearly
operates to suppress the
representation of minority groups, whether racial, economic, political,
or otherwise. |
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