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Under the independent state legislature theory, every dispute regarding federal elections at the state level would effectively become federal constitutional issues. "It literally is the opposite of what it claims or pretends to be," says Julian Zelizer. The North Carolina Supreme Court was not actually acting independently at all in this redistricting case,. It was acting pursuant to specific instructions from the legislature.