the nature of representation: the cherokee right ... - Boston University
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2005] THE NATURE OF REPRESENTATION 129<br />
acts creating <strong>of</strong>fice <strong>of</strong> Delegates contain within <strong>the</strong>ir provisions explicit<br />
qualifications similar to those constitutionally defined for members.” 187<br />
Fur<strong>the</strong>rmore, <strong>the</strong> groups represented by non-voting delegates can differ in ways not<br />
permitted for full delegates:<br />
These five [non-voting delegates] represent areas and constituents with vastly<br />
different political, cultural, geographic, and economic ties to <strong>the</strong> rest <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
United States. The populations <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se areas range from 47,000 in American<br />
Samoa to 3.6 million in Puerto Rico. By comparison <strong>the</strong> average population<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> congressional districts represented by <strong>the</strong> thirteen Member plaintiffs here<br />
is approximately 569,864. 188<br />
The non-voting delegates also differ from one ano<strong>the</strong>r. The variation between<br />
peoples having a <strong>right</strong> to a non-voting delegate, including <strong>the</strong> Cherokee people, is<br />
shown in <strong>the</strong> following chart:<br />
territorial delegates).<br />
187 2DESCHLER’S PRECEDENTS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, supra note 180, at<br />
39. 188<br />
Id. at 134 (noting in a footnote that under Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1, 8-9<br />
(1964), congressional districts must possess equal number <strong>of</strong> people “as nearly as [is]<br />
practicable”).