The Equal Protection Clause demands no less than substantially equal state legislative representation for all citizens, of all places as well as of all races. We hold that, as a basic constitutional standard, the Equal Protection Clause requires that... The Right to Vote: Rights and Liberties Under the Lawoleh D. Grier Stephenson - 2004 - 453 halamanPratinjau tidak tersedia - Tentang buku ini
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1965 - 1366 halaman
...— established the one-man, i principle. The Court declared "as a basic constitutional standard, tin protection clause requires that the seats in both houses of a bicameral S Ąshi I ure must be apportioned on a population basis * * *." As a result of that decision, we now... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1968 - 688 halaman
...protected rights demands judicial protection; our oath and our office require no less of us." Therefore: TT "[T]he Equal Protection Clause requires that the seats...legislature must be apportioned on a population basis." QED Those who point to the composition of the national legislature as an analogy to which the states... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1968 - 970 halaman
...related cases Is which the Supreme Court ruled that the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment "requires that the seats In both houses of a bicameral...legislature must be apportioned on a population basis," and that while "mathematical exactness of precision" In carving out legislative districts may be Impossible,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1968 - 260 halaman
...assertion of jurisdiction in Baker v. Carr, supra. In the case of Reynolds v. Sims' the Court held that, "as a basic constitutional standard, the Equal Protection Clause requires that both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apportioned on a population basis." * Explaining... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1973 - 362 halaman
...the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In Reynolds, Mr. Chief Justice Warren said : "We hold that, as a basic constitutional standard,...both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apport1oned on a population basis. Simply stated, an individual's right to vote for state legislators... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - 1978 - 106 halaman
...v. Sims, supra, on the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution. "We hold that as basic constitutional standard, the Equal Protection...legislature must be apportioned on a population basis. Reynolds v. Sims, 337 US, at 568, 84 S. Ct. at 1385." Section 5 (a) of the Organic Act of Guam, as... | |
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