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In the interim, the state's population had grown from just over two million to more than three and one-half million. 231, 56 L.Ed. 510, 65 L.Ed. Just such considerations, among others here present, were determinative in Luther v. Borden and the Oregon initiative cases.152. 128; Adger v. Alston, 15 Wall. Found inside – Page 327Still, the sweep of Baker v. Carr would be difficult to overstate. Chief Justice Warren said in his memoirs that the case was “the most important case of my ... 834, and the decisions they spawned, the Court has never thought that protection of voting rights was beyond judicial cognizance. Found inside – Page 248Fueled with a solid liberal majority of five Justices (the four activists of the ... the Court moved vigorously and consistently up until Chief Justice ... (2) No state court had recognized as a judicial responsibility settlement of the issue of the locus of state governmental authority. Found insideInterpreting The Constitution doesn't fit neatly into the extensive literature on judicial review and constitutional interpretation that reconciles judicial review with democracy defined as majority rule. All Rights Reserved. Some of those concerned the choice of members of a state legislature, as in this case; others, like Colegrove itself and earlier precedents, Smiley v. Holm, 285 U.S. 355, 52 S.Ct. Amendments proposed in the Senate or House must first be approved by a majority of all members of each House and again by two-thirds of the members in the General Assembly next chosen. 182, also has a unique element in that 'the relation of the Indians to the United States is marked by peculiar and cardinal distinctions which exist no where else. No one—except the dissenters advocating the HARLAN 'adjusted 'total representation" formula—contends that mathematical equality among voters is required by the Equal Protection Clause. 691; Terlinden v. Ames, 184 U.S. 270, 22 S.Ct. Richard C. Cortner, The Apportionment Cases (1970); Jene Graham, One Man, One Vote: Baker v. Carr and the American Levellers (1972). Note: Landmark Cases, C-SPAN's series on historic Supreme Court decisions—produced in cooperation with the National Constitution Center—continues on Monday, December 7 at 9 p.m. 793, 87 L.Ed. at 826. 497. But it is not true that courts will never delve into a legislature's records upon such a quest: If the enrolled statute lacks an effective date, a court will not hesitate to seek it in the legislative journals in order to preserve the enactment. But even so the remedy in this situation clearly does not lie with the courts. Does the complaint disclose a violation of a federal constitutional right, in other words, a claim over which a United States District Court would have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. Still again, though it is the executive that determines a person's status as representative of a foreign government, Ex parte Hitz, 111 U.S. 766, 4 S.Ct. 54, id., at 369—374. The political question doctrine, a tool for maintenance of governmental order, will not be so applied as to promote only disorder. '* * * (T)he contention, if held to be sound, would necessarily affect the validity, not only of the particular statute which is before us, but of every other statute passed in Oregon since the adoption of the initiative and referendum. A. The jurisdiction of this court would only exist in case there had been * * * such a plain and substantial departure from the fundamental principles upon which our government is based that it could with truth and propriety be said that, if the judgment were suffered to remain, the party aggrieved would be deprived of his life, liberty, or property in violation of the provisions of the federal constitution.' The discrimination here does not fit any pattern—as I have said, it is but a crazy quilt. 1117; Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579, 72 S.Ct. Inasmuch as it involves questions of local law more appropriately decided by judges sitting in Tennessee than by this Court, and since in any event the failure to join County Election Commissioners in this action looking to prospective relief could be corrected, if necessary, by amendment of the complaints, the issue does not concern the Court on this appeal. Unless judges, the judges of this Court, are to make their private views of political wisdom the measure of the Constitution—views which in all honesty cannot but give the appearance, if not reflect the reality, of involvement with the business of partisan politics so inescapably a part of apportionment controversies—the Fourteenth Amendment, 'itself a historical product,' Jackman v. Rosenbaum Co., 260 U.S. 22, 31, 43 S.Ct. Alaska Const.1956, Art. 1341. While Loudon and Anderson Counties are substantially underrepresented, this is because of their proximity to Knox County, which outweighs their votes in the Sixth Senatorial District and in the Eighth Floterial District. This is not a case in which a State has, through a device however oblique and sophisticated, denied Negroes or Jews or redheaded persons a vote, or given them only a third or a sixth of a vote. He relied on Coleman v. Miller, 307 U.S. 433, 438, 467, 59 S.Ct. XI, § 3. III, § 5, and even where they do not, they do precisely fix the criteria for judicial judgment respecting the allocation of representative strength within the electorate. 11 Footnote 395 U.S. at 319. 253, 307, 7 L.Ed. However, the root of the trouble is not in Tennessee's Constitution, for admittedly its policy has not been followed. Georgia v. Stanton, supra, expresses a philosophy at war with Ex parte Milligan, 4 Wall. 57, 84—85, stated: 'By the statute 1 W. & M., usually known as the Bill of Rights, it was finally settled that there could be no taxation in this country except under authority of an Act of Parliament. 1262, litigants brought suit in a Federal District Court challenging as offensive to the Equal Protection Clause Illinois' state legislative-apportionment laws. The fact that the appellants have been unable to obtain political redress of their asserted grievances appears to be regarded as a matter which should lead the Court to stretch to find some basis for judicial intervention. From there he went to 'A question of much more difficulty * * *. It is my view that the majority opinion has failed to point to any recognizable constitutional claim alleged in this complaint. But the merits of this case are not before us now. While I join the opinion of the Court and, like the Court, do not reach the merits, a word of explanation is necessary. 6, § 1; 1901, ch. These are matters of local policy, on the wisdom of which the federal judiciary is neither permitted nor qualified to sit in judgment. 717), for to do so would be to take over the office. 1349; Nixon v. Condon, 286 U.S. 73, 52 S.Ct. In his autobiography, Chief Justice Earl Warren described Baker v.Carr as "the most important case of [his] tenure on the Court." Following Brown v. Board of Education by eight years, Baker was the second "blockbuster" case of the Warren Court. Apportionments made when the greater part of the population was located in rural communities are still determining and undermining our elections. 759—764), no intention to fix immutably the means of selecting representatives for state governments could have been in the minds of either the founders or the draftsmen of the Fourteenth Amendment. The proposals are then submitted to the people at the next general election in which a Governor is to be chosen. 199, 91 L.Ed. It has long been recognized and is accepted doctrine that there are indeed some rights guaranteed by the Constitution for the violation of which the courts cannot give redress.' 685; Cox v. Peters, 342 U.S. 936, 72 S.Ct. Problems of timing were critical in Remmey v. Smith, 342 U.S. 916, 72 S.Ct. 328 U.S. at 552, 66 S.Ct. Subsequent Cases Regarding Size/Proportionality: Subsequent Cases Regarding Racial Composition: This case overturned a previous ruling or rulings, Dissent by Justices Frankfurter and Harlan, Associate Justice Charles Evans Whittaker, List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 369, Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama, "Whittaker is leaving U.S. Supreme Court", Landmark Cases: Historic Supreme Court Decisions, Board of Estimate of City of New York v. Morris, Harris v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry, Mississippi Republican Executive Committee v. Brooks, Houston Lawyers' Association v. Attorney General of Texas, Bethune-Hill v. Virginia State Bd. Field v. Clark, 143 U.S. 649, 672, 676—677, 12 S.Ct. Justices Douglas, Clark, and Stewart also joined in Justice Brennan's majority opinion and wrote separate concurring opinions. It also appears, although the section is not altogether clear, that the provisions of West Virginia's Constitution controlling apportionment of senators would operate in favor of the State's less populous regions by limiting any single county to a maximum of two senators. § 1983, 42 U.S.C.A. United States Reports Case Number: 369 U.S. 186. Rhode Island, at the time of the separation from England, had not adopted a new constitution but had continued, in its existence as an independent State, under its original royal Charter, with certain statutory alterations. 793, 87 L.Ed. Mr. Rhyne. 249; Mountain Timber Co. v. Washington, 243 U.S. 219, 37 S.Ct. 27 The Chief Justice was joined by Justices Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, and Kagan. It may well impair the Court's position as the ultimate organ of 'the supreme Law of the Land' in that vast range of legal problems, often strongly entangled in popular feeling, on which this Court must pronounce. W.Va.Const.1861—1863, Art. 140, 142, 93 L.Ed. Charles Baker, a resident of an urban neighborhood in Tennessee, filed suit in federal court against Joe Carr, then Secretary of State of Tennessee. After the district court dismissed their case, the Supreme Court decided in favor of the plaintiffs following two separate rounds of oral arguments in which the U.S. solicitor general intervened on their behalf. The claim that Tennessee's system of apportionment is so unreasonable as to amount to a capricious classification of voting strength stands up no better under dispassionate analysis. Whittaker took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. Unlike many other cases in this field which have assumed without discussion that there was jurisdiction, all three opinions filed in Colegrove discussed the question. 710 (claim that rule requiring invalidation of statute by all but one justice of state court negated republican government held nonjusticiable); Highland Farms Dairy v. Agnew, 300 U.S. 608, 57 S.Ct. The Framers of the Constitution persistently rejected a proposal that embodied this assumption and Thomas Jefferson never entertained it. 571, 572, 574 (1955). IV, § 1. 1), 178 U.S. 548, 20 S.Ct. At first blush, this charge of discrimination based on legislative underrepresentation is given the appearance of a more private, less impersonal claim, than the assertion that the frame of government is askew. & E. 1; and Bowles v. Bank of England (No. Charles S. Rhyne: Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the Court. 1262;21 Tedesco v. Board of Supervisors, 339 U.S. 940, 70 S.Ct. 14901—14916 (remarks of Senator Clark and supporting materials); H.R.Rep. 1014; Clark v. Allen, 331 U.S. 503, 67 S.Ct. Opinions written by: Majority-Warren,Black,Douglas,Clark,Stewart,Brennan. The Court followed these precedents in Colegrove although over the dissent of three of the seven Justices who participated in that decision. Bitter animosities racked the convention, threatening the State with disunion. 1409, 1420, 91 L.Ed. Article III, § 2, of the Federal Constitution provides that 'The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority * * *.' 261, 262, 66 L.Ed. Consequently, if Tennessee is apportioning in favor of its agricultural interests, as constitutionally it was entitled to do, it would necessarily reduce representation from the east. Appellants also argue that, because of the composition of the legislature effected by the 1901 Apportionment Act, redress in the form of a state constitutional amendment to change the entire mechanism for reapportioning, or any other change short of that, is difficult or impossible.14 The complaint concludes that 'these plaintiffs and others similarly situated, are denied the equal protection of the laws accorded them by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States by virtue of the debasement of their votes. Sanborn v. Davidson County Board of Election Comm'rs, No. 649, 652. 'Twenty-fourth district—Henry and Carroll. This Court unanimously reversed. In Mississippi v. Johnson, 4 Wall. In probing beneath the surface of cases in which the Court has declined to interfere with the actions of political organs of government, of decisive significance is whether in each situation the ultimate decision has been to intervene or not to intervene. Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (Peden ed. Second, § 2, for Senate apportionment based on numbers. Over the years, the political question doctrine has been applied to preclude adjudication of a variety of other issues. CELLER. 698, 28 L.Ed. It is suggested that the districting is not unconstitutional since it was established by a statute that was constitutional when passed some 60 years ago. VIII, § 1. Intrusion of the Federal Government into the election machinery of the States has taken numerous forms—investigations (Hannah v. Larche, 363 U.S. 420, 80 S.Ct. 1152. The 1958 Act raised the minimum to ten and the maximum to fifteen years. 107, provides no guide for judicial oversight of the representation problem. This would leave to that court after remand the questions of the challenged statute's constitutionality and of some undefined, unadumbrated relief in the event a constitutional violation is found. 530, 532, 89 L.Ed. Apportionment of representatives.—The number of Representatives shall, at the several periods of making the enumeration, be apportioned among the several counties or districts, according to the number of qualified voters in each; and shall not exceed seventy-five, until the population of the State shall be one million and a half, and shall never exceed ninety-nine; Provided that any county having two-thirds of the ratio shall be entitled to one member. The same three-tiered system has subsequently been adopted in Florida, Fla.Const.1885, Art. 1005. Justice Clark's noteworthy opinion argued that Tennessee's apportionment system was arbitrary and observed that, in the absence of initiative or referendum mechanisms, judicial intervention was the only effective remedy. E.g., Dryer v. Illinois, 187 U.S. 71, 23 S.Ct. Colo.Const.1876, Art. VI, c. 41. 40, 52 L.Ed. 223, 1 L.Ed.2d 157; Radford v. Gary, 352 U.S. 991, 77 S.Ct. The method of equal proportions is used. § 1343(3), 28 U.S.C.A. (4) No provision of the Constitution could be or had been invoked for this purpose except Art. Similarly, in 1961, the House directed the State Legislative Council to study methods of reapportionment. 939, for failure of the complaint to state a claim upon which relief could be granted, the judgment of the District Court was correct. 397, 88 L.Ed. * * *' 7 How., at 42—44. 'Twenty-second district—Henry, Weakley and Carroll. While I join the opinion of the Court and, like the Court, do not reach the merits, a word of explanation is necessary.1 I put to one side the problems of 'political' questions involving the distribution of power between this Court, the Congress, and the Chief Executive. Tennessee State Planning Commission, Pub. And see Keogh v. Neely, 50 F.2d 685 (C.A.7th Cir.). 1881—deferring to political determination the question of the duration of war for purposes of the Presidential power to deport alien enemies—that judicial intruction would seriously impede the President's power effectively to protect the country's interests in time of war. The federal courts have not been empowered by the Equal Protection Clause to judge whether this resolution of the State's internal political conflict is desirable or undesirable, wise or unwise. 176.' 5, § 1; 1881 (E.S. 635, 657, 14 L.Ed. 499; compare Leser v. Garnett, 258 U.S. 130, 42 S.Ct. (C)ertainly no court of the United States, with a knowledge of this decision, would have been justified in recognizing the opposing party as the lawful government * * *. 397, 76 L.Ed. Cf. 873) and cases cited.'. The statements in Luther v. Borden, 7 How. 797, 94 L.Ed. Second, §§ IV to XI; Pt. 368, 96 L.Ed. Davidson County.—Davidson county shall elect six (6) representatives. I, § 4, cl. Cf. 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