Baker v Carr

• Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186 (1962)

U.S. Supreme Court BAKER v. CARR, 369 U.S. 186 (1962) 369 U.S. 186 BAKER ET AL. v. CARR ET AL. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR T...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Bush v. Gore: looking at Baker v. Carr in a conservative mirror.

A Southern state engages in electoral shenanigans, thereby precipitating a national crisis. Most United States Supreme Court Justices conclude that th...

• Constitutional Commentary
• Vol. 18 Nbr. 2, June 2001

• Baker v. Carr

The ideal of one person, one vote motivated the founders of the United States of America to establish a census when they drafted the...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• A–Ba

• A Liberal Shock Doctrine

[...] in the most important turning point in history you've never heard of, Kennedy narrowly won a vote to dynamite the House Rules Committee's role as a tar pit for liberal legislation by expanding its membership. second, the Supreme Court's first "one man, one vote" decision, Baker v. Carr (1962), outlawed Southern electoral systems, which, for instance, gave the three smallest counties in Georgia, with a total population of 69,800, as much voting strength as the largest county in the state, with a population of 556,326. Stopped in our tracks time and time again in attempts to assure Americans the basic social rights taken for granted by citizens of every other industrialized nation, progressives have made virtue of necessity-we have learned to think of strategic incrementalism as a ...

• American Prospect, The
• Vol. 19 Nbr. 9, September 2008

• Section 4: Obligations of United States to States

..., a status from which the Court's opinion in Baker v. Carr, despite its substantial curbing of the po...

• Constitution of the United States (Annotated)

• Baker v. Carr 1962

Appellants: Charles W. Baker and others Appellees: Joe E. Carr and others Appellants' Claim: That voting districts drawn ...

• Supreme Court Drama: Cases That Changed America
• Volume 3: Equal Protection and Civil Rights
• Voting Rights

• Baker v. Carr 369 U.S. 186 (1962)

Chief Justice EARL WARREN considered Baker v. Carr the most importan...

• Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
• AB-CI

• Plains talk: what Jimmy Carter's first bid for public office tells us about politics today.

Carter describes his first political race, in 1962, in 'Turning Point: A Candidate, A State, and a Nation Come of Age' and the evolution of state politics. The book provides an excellent historical perspective of the Baker v. Carr ruling of 'one man, one vote.'

• Washington Monthly
• Vol. 24 Nbr. 11, November 1992

• Turnover in Okla. House After This Year's Election to Be Highest in Four Decades

Turnover in the state House of Representatives after this year's election cycle will be the highest number in at least four decades. The House will have 35 new members, at a minimum, next year. The last time the state House had that many fresh faces was 1965, after 49 new Representatives were elected in the wake of court-ordered reapportionment in 1964 under guidelines the U.S. Supreme Court issued in the Baker v. Carr case. Twenty-eight House members are ending legislative careers by mandatory term limits Oklahoma voters imposed in 1990 when they adopted State Question 632, a constitutional amendment limits legislative service for House and Senate members alike to 12 years. The limitation went into effect in 1992.

• The Journal Record
• June 03, 2004

• Closing the Door On Positive Rights: State Court Use of the Political Question Doctrine to Deny Access to Educational Adequacy Claims

The United States system of funding schools with local property tax dollars leads to qualitative disparities across school districts. It is crucial that state courts address this problem, since no federal right to education exists. Students and parents have successfully challenged these funding systems in many states, but courts in seven states - citing the political question doctrine - have refused to review these claims. It appears that most of these states lack a coherent political question history and have used the prudential standing doctrine to avoid education claims specifically. This Note argues that the political question doctrine should not be used as an excuse to ignore educational adequacy cases in states with an affirmative constitutional right to education.

... political question doctrine, explained in Baker v. Carr,4 to reject education claims.5 In that 196...

• Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems
• Vol. 42 Nbr. 4, July 2009