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malapportionment

n. (context politics English) Any system where one group has significantly more influence than another, such as when voting districts are unevenly spread out across a population (compare gerrymandering).

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Only Brennan chose to answer with a lengthy document of his own, outlining the injustice of malapportionment in politics.

The high court, throughout its long and distinguished history, has helped usnot always perfectly or swiftlythrough crises of institutional racism, religious intolerance, McCarthyism, systematic malapportionment, presidents who deemed themselves above the law, and governors who defied the Constitution.