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The British trade unionist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Howell_(trade_unionist) George Howell] used the phrase "one man, one vote" in political pamphlets in 1880.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Howell|first=George|date=1880|title="One man, one vote"|url=|journal=Manchester Selected Pamphlets|volume=|pages=|via=JSTOR 60239578}}</ref> During the 20th-century period of de-colonisation and the struggles for national sovereignty, from the late 1940s onwards, this phrase became widely used in developing countries where majority populations sought to gain political power in proportion to their numbers.[citation needed] The slogan was notably used by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_resistance_to_South_African_apartheid anti-apartheid movement] during the 1980s, which sought to end white minority rule in South Africa.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Lewis H. Gann|first=Peter Duignan|title=Hope for South Africa?|publisher=Hoover Institution Press|year=1991|isbn=0817989528|location=|pages=p. 166}}</ref>
In the United States, the "one person, one vote" principle was invoked in a series of cases by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Court Warren Court] in the 1960s, during the height of related civil rights activities.
=== Court cases ===
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The Warren Court's decision was upheld in Board of Estimate of City of New York v. Morris, 489 U.S. 688 (1989).<ref>"The Supreme Court: One-Man, One-Vote, Locally". ''Time''. 1968-04-12. Retrieved 2010-05-20.</ref> Evenwel v. Abbott, 578 U.S. ___ (2016), said states may use total population in drawing districts.<ref>Anonymous (2010-08-19). "one-person, one-vote rule". ''LII / Legal Information Institute''. Retrieved 2019-09-17.</ref>
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[[Category:Types of representation]]
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