LAWS 2180 Study Guide - Equal Protection Clause, Article Four Of The United States Constitution, Political Question
Document Summary
Baker v. carr (1962: reapportionment case: who decided redistricting that changing the way voting districts are delineated, defense: not the duty of the court to reapportion the voting districts, should be a political question. 1946 colgrove v. green: guarantee clause (article 4 section 4) allowed the courts to decide reapportionment. 1849 luther v. borden: court said they could not decide who had power in civil war in. Rhode island: that is a political question: court decided in baker v. carr that the denial of the equal protection clause gives them the power to rule in reapportionment cases. Reynolds v. sims (1964: alabama has unit rule of voting: regardless of a population of the county, whoever had a majority in that county was given 1 vote. That meant that the rural counties could dominate without having a population majority: the court had to acknowledge that it was a political activity but they tried to get involved in making it equal.
