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4 lis 2024 · The Court today reverses a uniform course of decision established by a dozen cases, including one by which the very claim now sustained was unanimously rejected
Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186 (1962), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that redistricting qualifies as a justiciable question under the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause, thus enabling federal
Baker v. Carr (1962) is a landmark case credited with legally establishing the noted principle of “one person, one vote” and with condemning legislative malapportionment. “Malapportionment” refers to the underrepresentation of the population that arises when one legislative district is considerably more populated than another.
The Baker decision protected individual rights by holding that unequal representation of citizens is unconstitutional and may be reviewed by courts. In 1964, the Supreme Court heard six more cases regarding legislative apportionment in Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, Maryland, New York, and Virginia.
Charles W. Baker and other Tennessee citizens alleged that a 1901 law designed to apportion the seats for the state's General Assembly was virtually ignored. Baker's suit detailed how Tennessee's reapportionment efforts ignored significant economic growth and population shifts within the state.
Baker v. Carr, (1962), U.S. Supreme Court case that forced the Tennessee legislature to reapportion itself on the basis of population. Traditionally, particularly in the South, the populations of rural areas had been overrepresented in legislatures in proportion to those of urban and suburban areas.
