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The Supreme Court refers to these policies (including respecting <br />subdivisions) as “traditional districting principles.” See, e.g., Shaw v. Reno, 509 U.S. 630, 647 <br />(1993) (slip op. at 6-17); Miller v. Johnson, 515 U.S. 900, 919 (slip op. at 16) (1995); Shaw v. Hunt, <br />517 U.S. 899, (1996); Bush v. Vera,517 U.S. 952, 959 (1996); Abrams v. Johnson,521 U.S. 74, 84­ <br />95 (1997). <br />III.Don’t Discriminate Against Racial or Language Minorities <br />A.Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act <br />1.A National Standard <br />Assuming that you are prepared to meet equal population requirem <br />to make sure you do not discriminate against minorities. <br />In a democracy, “power to the people” means the power to vote. <br />1 <br />Rights Act of 1965 (codified as amended at 42 U.S.C. § 1973), attempts to secure this political <br />power for racial and language minorities by prohibiting states a <br />imposing or applying voting qualifications; prerequisites to vot <br />procedures to deny or abridge the right to vote on account of ra <br />1 <br />§ 1973 Denial or abridgement of right to vote on account of race <br />qualifications or prerequisites; establishment of violation <br />(a) No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting or standard, p <br />applied by any State or political subdivision in a manner which <br />citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color <br />section 1973b(f)(2) of this title, as provided in subsection (b) <br />(b) A violation of subsection (a) of this section is established if <br />is shown that the political processes leading to nomination or e <br />equally open to participation by members of a class of citizens <br />members have less opportunity than other members of the electora <br />elect representatives of their choice. The extent to which memb <br />Provided <br />the State or political subdivision is one circumstance which may, That nothing in this <br />section establishes a right to have members of a protected class <br />population. <br />§ 1973b <br />(f)(2) No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or st <br />imposed or applied by any State or political subdivision to deny <br />States to vote because he is a member of a language minority gro <br />§ 1973l <br />(c)(3) The term “language minorities” or “language minority gro <br />American Indian, Asian American, Alaskan Natives or of Spanish h <br />17 <br /> <br />