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

• Baker V. Carr: Memphis Case Made History

In the midst of election-year battles over redistricting, voter ID laws and unprecedented campaign spending, we should pause for a moment to reflect on the most important voting rights case of the last century. Fifty years ago this week the United States Supreme Court decided Baker v. Carr. The case marks a turning point in our nation's long and too often shameful history of voting rights.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• March 28, 2012

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Changing Course From the Warren Court

Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. believes that Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s disagreement with the 1962 Supreme Court reapportionment decision (Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186) makes him unqualified for the U.S. Supreme Court ("Biden threatens Alito filibuster," Nation, Nov. 21). By that line of thinking, Felix Frankfurter was also unqualified. Justice Frankfurter, along with Justice John M. Harlan, disagreed strenuously with the Baker decision. Justice Frankfurter was thought by liberals to be one of the giants of 20th-century law until he started coming down on the "wrong side" in many important Supreme Court decisions. This is where we are with the result-oriented Supreme Court jurisprudence supported by Mr. Biden and his Democrat allies: There is something wrong, as the Supreme Court sees "wrong"...

• The Washington Times
• November 28, 2005