N.D. Const. art. IV, § 3 — Research

One-half of Members Elected Each Biennium. Text of the section: current and prior versions.

Every citing reference in the corpus: 2 court opinions and 1 Attorney General opinion. Counts include the section's pre-1981 designation (§ 27), era-gated by the renumbering crosswalk.

Generated from the citation graph of the validated corpus. Treatment groupings (construing / citing / recital) are heuristic reading aids, not editorial judgments — read the opinion before relying on any signal.

• Kelsh v. Jaeger, 2002 ND 53 (2002, per curiam) · quotes the provision
  • ¶ 5: “…state in the power to cast ballots for legislative candidates. A senator and at least two representatives must be apportioned to each senatorial district and be elected at large or from subdistricts from those districts. Also relevant is N.D. Const, art. IV, § 3, which states: The legislative assembly shall establish by law a procedure whereby one-half of the members of the senate and one-half of the members of the house of representatives, as nearly as is practicable, are e…”

• State ex rel. Williams v. Meyer, 1910 ND 105 (1910, Spalding, J.)

Advisory, not binding; included for the doctrine's full administrative history.

• N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 2001-L-25 (2001)

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