Excerpt from Popular Government, Vol. 46: Spring 1981 The one-man, one-vote principle means that each county commissioner should represent about the same number of people. Federal court cases and North Carolina's home rule statute say that each commissioner should represent a population that is as nearly equal as practicable8 to the population represented by each other commissioner in the county. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.