Add to ORKGPetitioners, three qualified Illinois voters, filed a proceeding in a United States district court composed of three judges, seeking a determination under the Federal Declaratory Judgment Act that the 1901 State Apportionment Act of Illinois was in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment and Article I of the Constitution, in that it denied to citizens of the United States the equal and unabridged right to vote for Congressmen. On direct appeal to the Supreme Court of a dismissal of the petition by the lower court, the complaint alleged that the statute apportioning the State of Illinois was void in that it failed to provide for compactness of territory and approximate equality of population, with the result of a substantial disparity between ...
Beginning in the 1960s and 1970s, the Supreme Court began to establish and enforce a constitutional ...
In Cook v Gralike, the Court - unanimous as to result - struck down a Missouri initiative amending t...
In its continuing role as guardian of citizens’ constitutional rights, the Supreme Court in Baker v....
The Progressive Party, unable to qualify as a political party for purposes of the Illinois primary e...
In three recent cases the Supreme Court has reopened the question of the extent to which federal cou...
Relator was the losing candidate in an election for the office of Representative to the United State...
The increasingly complex problems of elucidating congressional apportionment standards and granting ...
Plaintiffs brought an action against defendants, Chairman of the Georgia State Democratic Executive ...
Plaintiff, a District of Columbia corporation, sued defendant, a Nebraska corporation, in the Munici...
This paper is concerned with the rules found in our state constitutions for apportionment of represe...
Since Baker v. Carr, when the Supreme Court overruled a long line of earlier decisions and conclude...
After each census, state legislatures must redraw voting districts for state and local elections. Ea...
The modern voting wars involve repeated legal challenges alleging that procedures aimed at protect...
Fair representation is the ultimate goal. At the time of the Reapportionment Decisions, much change ...
In September 1958, in its first complaint under the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the United States soug...
Beginning in the 1960s and 1970s, the Supreme Court began to establish and enforce a constitutional ...
In Cook v Gralike, the Court - unanimous as to result - struck down a Missouri initiative amending t...
In its continuing role as guardian of citizens’ constitutional rights, the Supreme Court in Baker v....
The Progressive Party, unable to qualify as a political party for purposes of the Illinois primary e...
In three recent cases the Supreme Court has reopened the question of the extent to which federal cou...
Relator was the losing candidate in an election for the office of Representative to the United State...
The increasingly complex problems of elucidating congressional apportionment standards and granting ...
Plaintiffs brought an action against defendants, Chairman of the Georgia State Democratic Executive ...
Plaintiff, a District of Columbia corporation, sued defendant, a Nebraska corporation, in the Munici...
This paper is concerned with the rules found in our state constitutions for apportionment of represe...
Since Baker v. Carr, when the Supreme Court overruled a long line of earlier decisions and conclude...
After each census, state legislatures must redraw voting districts for state and local elections. Ea...
The modern voting wars involve repeated legal challenges alleging that procedures aimed at protect...
Fair representation is the ultimate goal. At the time of the Reapportionment Decisions, much change ...
In September 1958, in its first complaint under the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the United States soug...
Beginning in the 1960s and 1970s, the Supreme Court began to establish and enforce a constitutional ...
In Cook v Gralike, the Court - unanimous as to result - struck down a Missouri initiative amending t...
In its continuing role as guardian of citizens’ constitutional rights, the Supreme Court in Baker v....