Editing Vermont General Assembly (section)

==History==
Vermont had a [[unicameral legislature]] until 1836. It added a senate by constitutional amendment.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leg.state.vt.us/reports/02redistricting/LAB_Senate.pdf|title=REPORT OF THE LEGISLATIVE APPORTIONMENT BOARD: The 2001 Tentative Plan for the Vermont Senate|page=8|access-date=9 September 2017}}</ref> Prior to 1915, the legislature opened its session in the fall. In 1915 it began opening in January.<ref>{{cite book | author = Lefebvre, Paul |title = Legislators cast wary eye at state budget | publisher = the Chronicle | date = January 7, 2009}}</ref> The legislature takes a break the week of Town Meeting Day in March.<ref>{{cite book | author = Moore, Kimberly C. |title = Crowds have juicy time at Big Squeeze | publisher = Burlington Free Press | date = January 1, 2009}}</ref>

=== One Town, One Vote ===
From 1777 to 1965, each city/town elected one representative to the Vermont House of Representatives, regardless of the population of the municipality.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-12-15 |title=Unpacking Vermont’s history of reapportionment - Mountain Times |url=https://mountaintimes.info/2021/12/15/unpacking-vermonts-history-of-reapportionment/ |access-date=2024-05-12 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Bushnell |first=Mark |date=2020-01-12 |title=Then Again: Until 1965, the smallest town had as much clout as the biggest city in the Vermont House |url=http://vtdigger.org/2020/01/12/then-again-until-1965-the-smallest-town-had-as-much-clout-as-the-biggest-city-in-the-vermont-house/ |access-date=2024-05-12 |website=VTDigger |language=en-US}}</ref> This changed with the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]]'s 1964 decree of "[[One man, one vote|One Man, One Vote]]" in ''[[Reynolds v. Sims]]'', which affected all state legislatures across the Union.<ref>Shull, Charles W. (1941). "Reapportionment: A Chronic Problem". ''National Municipal Review''. '''30''' (2): 73–79. [[Digital object identifier|doi]]:[[doi:10.1002/ncr.4110300204|10.1002/ncr.4110300204]]</ref>