Ibelieve the Founding Fathers — and Founding Mothers — would support Judge Diana Gibson’s ruling this week in a redistricting lawsuit against the Utah Legislature. Here are two reasons why.

No taxation without representation

First, the Founders objected to being “taxed without representation.”

I am one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. As a Salt Lake City resident, I essentially had no representation in Washington, since my community had been gerrymandered out of existence, politically speaking. The Utah Legislature diluted the voices of urban voters — who tend to favor non-Republican candidates — by “cracking” Salt Lake County into four pieces that sit within four Congressional districts.

In “Common Sense,” Thomas Paine argued that it was illogical for an island (Great Britain) to r

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