In addition, Kim Young Sam accepted Kim Dae Jung's sharply differing formula for legislative reapportionment, a critical process that still lies ahead.
Because the legislative reapportionment caused by the population shifts in the 1990 census realigned all of the Bergen County districts, races there are generally considered close and difficult to handicap.
In this position, he favored legislative reapportionment, giving better representation to back-country districts, and advocated universal white manhood suffrage.
Looming just over the political horizon is the touchy once-every-decade task of legislative reapportionment.
He took up the cause of legislative reapportionment.
Professor McKay, an authority on constitutional law and on legislative reapportionment, was a lifelong scholar and an advocate in issues of public interest.
But the full Legislature does not meet again until the first week in April, when it will hold a special session on legislative reapportionment.
The new book depicts how the 1966 convention, one of only three in state history, addressed legislative reapportionment at a time when rural areas held sway.
There, he became an expert on United States Constitutional Law and legislative reapportionment.
"Back-room powerbrokers" in the Assembly also "put him in charge of fashioning a legislative and congressional reapportionment that gave Latinos their most substantial political representation in history."