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which would be exactly equal.

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Applying the standard of ten percent, it means

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that you may bo a total of ten percent between the high

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and the low. It would be five percent high, five percent

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low, or seven and three, or six and four.

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Now, this may not seem like a large number, this

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ten percent allowable deviation, but when you consider

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that in 1960 the mean population of a congressional district

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was 388,000, this means applying the ten percent figure that

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you could have, under the proposed constitutional require-

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ment here, a variation of almost 39,000 persons for each

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congressional district. This would be the area of

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flexibility, so to speak.

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Taking the Congressional Quarterly standards

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for 1970, which does not approximate as great a population

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for Maryland as some of our other sources, using even their

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figures each congressional district on an exact mathematical

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basis would have roughly 480,000 people, so applying the

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ten percent allowable deviation you would have, therefore,

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a difference of 48,000 between the high and the low

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congressional district.