5. . Definition and Examples, The Original Jurisdiction of the US Supreme Court, What Is Sovereign Immunity? I, 2, was being discussed, there are repeated references to apportionment and related problems affecting the States' selection of Representatives in connection with Art. I], not only as those powers were necessary for preserving the union, but also for securing to the people their equal rights of election. We do not deem [Colegrove v. Green] . [n21], The delegates who wanted every man's vote to count alike were sharp in their criticism of giving each State, [p12] regardless of population, the same voice in the National Legislature. Nonetheless, both countries have also developed intergovernmental immunities doctrines that aim to protect both the federal and the state governments from undue interference and to maintain the independence of each, at least to some extent. 39-40. In New York City, a single executive is popularly elected and he or she appoints officials in charge of various departments. It was to be the grand depository of the democratic principle of the Govt. In No. The three cases Baker v. Carr, Wesberry v. Sanders, and Reynolds v. Sims established that states were required to conduct redistricting so that the districts had The Supreme Court had ruled a decision in favor of Shaw and the other residents. Today's decision has portents for our society and the Court itself which should be recognized. at 180, 456 (Hugh Williamson of North Carolina); id. . . or [who] have rented a tenement . at 50-51 (Rufus King, Massachusetts); 3 id. All that there is is a provision which bases representation in the House, generally but not entirely, on the population of the States. Elections are equal when a given number of citizens in one part of the state choose as many representatives as are chosen by the same number of citizens in any other part of the state. * Georgia Laws, Sept.-Oct. 1962, Extra.Sess. The sharpest objection arose out of the fear on the part of small States like Delaware that, if population were to be the only basis of representation, the populous States like Virginia would elect a large enough number of representatives to wield overwhelming power in the National Government. Cf. Yet, each Georgia district was represented by one congressperson in the House of Representatives. 3. While those who wanted both houses to represent the people had yielded on the Senate, they had not yielded on the House of Representatives. . according to their respective Numbers." Elianna Spitzer is a legal studies writer and a former Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism research assistant. Wilson urged that people must be represented as individuals, so that America would escape [p15] the evils of the English system, under which one man could send two members to Parliament to represent the borough of Old Sarum, while London's million people sent but four. Definition and Examples, Shaw v. Reno: Supreme Court Case, Arguments, Impact, Obergefell v. Hodges: Supreme Court Case, Arguments, Impacts, Katzenbach v. Morgan: Supreme Court Case, Arguments, Impact, Washington v. Davis: Supreme Court Case, Arguments, Impact, Bolling v. Sharpe: Supreme Court Case, Arguments, Impact, Romer v. Evans: Supreme Court Case, Arguments, Impact, Browder v. Gayle: Court Case, Arguments, Impact. that nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to prevent the legislature of any state to pass laws, from time to time, to divide such state into as many convenient districts as the state shall be entitled to elect representatives for Congress, nor to prevent such legislature from making provision, that the electors in each district shall choose a citizen of the United States, who shall have been an inhabitant of the district, for the term of one year immediately preceding the time of his election, for one of the representatives of such state. The fact is, however, that Georgia's 10 Representatives are elected "by the People" of Georgia, just as Representatives from other States are elected "by the People of the several States." Gray v. Sanders, 372 U.S. 368, 381. 1496. [n42], Speakers at the ratifying conventions emphasized that the House of Representatives was meant to be free of the malapportionment then existing in some of the state legislatures -- such as those of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and South Carolina -- and argued that the power given Congress in Art. The average population of the ten districts is 394,312, less than half that of the Fifth. 3, 1928, 69 Cong.Rec. . . 54, Madison said: It is a fundamental principle of the proposed Constitution that, as the aggregate number of representatives allotted to the several States is to be determined by a federal rule founded on the aggregate number of inhabitants, so the right of choosing this allotted number in each State is to be exercised by such part of the inhabitants as the State itself may designate. A question is "political" if: Following these six prongs, Justice Warren concluded that alleged voting inequalities could not be characterized as "political questions" simply because they asserted wrongdoing in the political process. . 57 (Cooke ed.1961), 389. I, 4. 56. \hline 1 & 7 & 6 & 5 \\ In the North Carolina convention, again during discussion of 4, Mr. Steele pointed out that the state legislatures had the initial power to regulate elections, and that the North Carolina legislature would regulate the first election at least "as they think proper." 6, c. 66, Second Schedule, and of 1958, 6 & 7 Eliz. 70 Cong.Rec. (Emphasis added.) 1983 and 1988 and 28 U.S.C. The progressive elimination of the property qualification is described in Sait, American Parties and Elections (Penniman ed., 1952), 16-17. It was impossible to foresee all the abuses that might be made of the discretionary power. Justice Brennan focused the decision on whether redistricting could be a "justiciable" question, meaning whether federal courts could hear a case regarding apportionment of state representatives. Compare N.J.Const., 1776, Art. On the apportionment of the state legislatures at the time of the Constitutional Convention, see Luce, Legislative Principles (1930), 331-364; Hacker, Congressional Districting (1963), 5. Act of Feb. 25, 1882, 3, 22 Stat. . . of representatives . R. Civ. Suppose the citizens of a tri-city area need public transit to move across city lines. Before the war ended, the Congress had proposed and secured the ratification by the States of a somewhat closer association under the Articles of Confederation. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature. This is all that the Constitution requires. Perhaps it then will be objected that, from the supposed opposition of interests in the federal legislature, they may never agree upon any regulations; but regulations necessary for the interests of the people can never be opposed to the interests of either of the branches of the federal legislature, because that the interests of the people require that the mutual powers of that legislature should be preserved unimpaired in order to balance the government. I would enter an additional caveat. The failure gave significant power to voters in rural areas, and took away power from voters in suburban and urban parts of the state. Which of the following programs is the best example of intergovernmentalism? . WebCarr (1962) and Wesberry v. Sanders (1964) established that all electoral districts of state legislatures and the United States House of Representatives must be equal in size by "Baker v. Carr: Supreme Court Case, Arguments, Impact." 2 The Works of James Wilson (Andrews ed. Pp. . 2. 572,654317,973254,681, Virginia(10). In 1901, the Tennessee General Assembly passed an apportionment act. . . at 253-254, 406, 449-450, 482-484 (James Wilson of Pennsylvania). . 26.Id. 6. Time12345NonconformitiesperUnit73634Time678910NonconformitiesperUnit53520. . In addition, Connecticut, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, and Texas each elected one of their Representatives at large. Representatives were to be apportioned among the States on the basis of free population plus three-fifths of the slave population. Partly because the Australian list of federal powers is much longer than the American, less emphasis has been placed on Australias commerce power. (Italics added.) I, 2, restricted the power of the States to prescribe the conduct of elections conferred on them by Art. 491. That is the high standard of justice and common sense which the Founders set for us. . As a further guarantee that these Senators would be considered state emissaries, they were to be elected by the state legislatures, Art. [p5]. Following is the case brief for Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1 (1964). Eighty-five percent responded that they were more satisfied with the services at their new locale. . The Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause says that a state cannot "deny to any person within its jurisdiction theequal protectionof the laws." IV Elliot's Debates 257. 2 & 3 & 7 & 3 \\ . [n47]. As there stated: It was manifestly the intention of the Congress not to reenact the provision as to compactness, contiguity, and equality in population with respect to the districts to be created pursuant to the reapportionment under the Act of 1929. We hold that, construed in its historical context, the command of Art. This . In addition, the majoritys analysis is clouded by too many indirect issues to focus on the real issue at hand. 32-33, indicate that, under 4, the state legislatures, subject only to the ultimate control of Congress, could district as they chose. Of all the federal countries considered in our edited volume, Courts in Federal Countries: Federalists or Unitarists? . These conclusions presume that all the Representatives from a State in which any part of the congressional districting is found invalid would be affected. . The Court followed these precedents in Colegrove, although over the dissent of three of the seven Justices who participated in that decision. I, 2, of the Constitution of the United States, which provides that "The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States . State residents could then choose the level of pollution regulation that best suits their residents. Writing legislation is difficult, and members will let other members do it. I, sec. PS-110 Chp. [n28][p37] He explained further that his proposal was not intended to impose a requirement on the other States, but "to enable the states to act their discretion without the control of Congress." I, 2, for election of Representatives "by the People" means that congressional districts are to be, "as nearly as is practicable," equal in population, ante, pp. Which of the following is an example of a ballot initiative? The rejected thinking of those who supported the proposal to limit western representation is suggested by the statement of Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania that "The Busy haunts of men not the remote wilderness was the proper School of political Talents." from that state [South Carolina], will not be chosen by the people, but will be the representatives of a faction of that state. For the statutory standards under which these commissions operate, see House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Acts of 1949, 12 13 Geo. How can it be, then, that this very same sentence prevents Georgia from apportioning its Representatives as it chooses? Which best describes Federalism as a political system? In 1960, the population base was 178,559,217, and the number of Representatives was 435. More recently, the Court has interpreted the corporations power (s. 51(xx)) as allowing the federal government to regulate any corporate activities, including contracts with employees, despite the deliberately limited federal power to regulate employment relations through industrial arbitration (s. 51 (xxxv)). 552,863227,692325,171, Oregon(4). . Though the Articles established a central government for the United States, as the former colonies were even then called, the States retained most of their sovereignty, like independent nations bound together only by treaties. no serious inroads had yet been made upon the privileges of property, which, indeed, maintained in most states a second line of defense in the form of high personal property qualifications required for membership in the legislature. See generally Sait, op. . 585,586255,165330,421, NewYork(41). 2a to provide: (c) Each State entitled to more than one Representative in Congress under the apportionment provided in subsection (a) of this section, shall establish for each Representative a district composed of contiguous and compact territory, and the number of inhabitants contained within any district so established shall not vary more than 10 percentum from the number obtained by dividing the total population of such States, as established in the last decennial census, by the number of Representatives apportioned to such State under the provisions of subsection (a) of this section. supra, 93-96. . Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1 (1964) was a U.S. Supreme Court case involving U.S. Congressional districts in the state of Georgia. He relied on Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, which, after full discussion of Colegrove and all the opinions in it, held that allegations of disparities of population in state legislative districts raise justiciable claims on which courts may grant relief. 48. ; H.R. Like the U.S. Supreme Court, it exercises judicial review. 4340, and H.R. Not only can this right to vote not be denied outright, it cannot, consistently with Article I, be destroyed by alteration of ballots, see United States v. Classic, 313 U.S. 299, or diluted by stuffing of the ballot box, see United States v. Saylor, 322 U.S. 385. Those who thought that one branch should represent wealth were told by Roger Sherman of Connecticut that the. . 129, 153). The one thing that one person, one vote decisions could not effect was the use of gerrymandering. Justice Felix Frankfurter dissented, joined by Justice John Marshall Harlan. The constitutional right which the Court creates is manufactured out of whole cloth. [n34], It would defeat the principle solemnly embodied in the Great Compromise -- equal representation in the House for equal numbers of people -- for us to hold that, within the States, legislatures may draw the lines of congressional districts in such a way as to give some voters a greater voice in choosing a Congressman than others. But a court cannot erase only the districts which do not conform to the standard announced today, since invalidation of those districts would require that the lines of all the districts within the State be redrawn. 733, 734; Act of Aug. 8, 1911, 3, 37 Stat. 653,954195,551458,403, Connecticut(6). v. Varsity Brands, Inc. Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer, A Tennessee resident brought suit against the Secretary of State claiming that the failure to redraw the legislative districts every ten years, as outlined in the state. . What was the significance of Baker v Carr 1961? there is no apparent judicial remedy or set of judicial standards for resolving the issue, a decision cannot be made without first making a policy determination that is not judicial in nature, the Court cannot undertake an "independent resolution" without "expressing lack of the respect due coordinate branches of government", there is an unusual need for not questioning a political decision that has already been made, "the potentiality of embarrassment" from multiple decisions being issued by various departments regarding one question. 823,680272,154551,526, Idaho(2). Gibbons[p7]v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. . Despite population growth, the Tennessee General Assembly failed to enact a re-apportionment plan. If, on remand, the trial court is of the opinion that there is likelihood of the General Assembly's reapportioning the State in an appropriate manner, I believe that coercive relief should be deferred until after the General Assembly has had such an opportunity. [n2] A difference of this magnitude in the size of districts, the average population of which in each State is less than 500,000, [n3] is presumably not equality among districts "as nearly as is practicable," although the Court does not reveal its definition of that phrase. The fallacy of the Court's reasoning in this regard is illustrated by its slide, obscured by intervening discussion (see ante pp. [n25] At last those who supported representation of the people in both houses and those who supported it in neither were brought together, some expressing the fear that, if they did not reconcile their differences, "some foreign sword will probably do the work for us." 691, 718, 7 L.Ed.2d 663 (1962), the opinion of the Court recognized that Smiley 'settled the issue in favor of justiciability of questions of congressional redistricting.' . [n24], In the New York convention, during the discussion of 4, Mr. Jones objected to congressional power to regulate elections because such power, might be so construed as to deprive the states of an essential right, which, in the true design of the Constitution, was to be reserved to them. 276, 281 (1952). We do not reach the arguments that the Georgia statute violates the Due Process, Equal Protection, and Privileges and Immunities Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. . Baker v. Carr stated that states have to redraw district lines but the population in every district must be equal, to correct malapportionment. The power appears to me satisfactory, and as unlikely to be abused as any part of the Constitution. Baker v. Carr was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court casein the year 1962. 37. . Neither of the numbers of The Federalist from which the Court quotes, ante, pp. They have submitted the regulation of elections for the Federal Government in the first instance to the local administrations, which, in ordinary cases, and when no improper views prevail, may be both more convenient and more satisfactory; but they have reserved to the national authority a right to interpose whenever extraordinary circumstances might render that interposition necessary to its safety. 506,854378,499128,355, Montana(2). In support of this principle, George Mason of Virginia, argued strongly for an election of the larger branch by the people. Tennessee had acted "arbitrarily" and "capriciously" in not following redistricting standards, he claimed. He justified Congress' power with the "plain proposition, that every[p41]government ought to contain, in itself, the means of its own preservation." I love them.. . [n6][p25]. establishment of a federal income tax after the adoption of the Sixteenth Amendment. . The complaint alleged that appellants were deprived of the full benefit of their right to vote, in violation of (1) Art. However, Art. Baker v. Carr was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case in the year 1962. The populations of the districts are available in the biographical section of the Congressional Directory, 88th Cong., 2d Sess. There is nothing to indicate any limitation whatsoever on this grant of plenary initial and supervisory power. 6. 8. [n8] Although many, perhaps most, of them also believed generally -- but assuredly not in the precise, formalistic way of the majority of the Court [n9] -- that, within the States, representation should be based on population, they did not surreptitiously slip their belief into the Constitution in the phrase "by the People," to be discovered 175 years later like a Shakespearian anagram. [n19]. I, 4, of the Constitution [n7] had given Congress "exclusive authority" to protect the right of citizens to vote for Congressmen, [n8] but we made it clear in Baker that nothing in the language of that article gives support to a construction that would immunize state congressional apportionment laws which debase a citizen's right to vote from the power of courts to protect the constitutional rights of individuals from legislative destruction, a power recognized at least since our decision in Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch 137, in 1803. Baker petition to the United States Supreme Court. The Court relies in part on Baker v. Carr, supra, to immunize its present decision from the force of Colegrove. . . . Representatives were elected at large in Alabama (8), Alaska (1), Delaware (1), Hawaii (2), Nevada (1), New Mexico (2), Vermont (1), and Wyoming (1). It is whimsical to assert in the face of this guarantee that an absolute principle of "equal representation in the House for equal numbers of people" is "solemnly embodied" in Article I. The Fifth district voters sued the Governor and Secretary of State of Georgia, seeking a declaration that Georgias 1931 apportionment statute was invalid, and that the State should be enjoined from conducting elections under the statute. WESBERRY v. SANDERS 376 U.S. 1 (1964) After baker v. carr (1962) held that legislative districting presented a justiciable controversy, the Supreme Court held in Wesberry, 81, that a state's congressional districts are required by Article I, section 2, of the Constitution to be as equal in population as is practicable. I, 2, of the Constitution provides that Representatives are to be chosen "by the People of the several States. Carr in 1962, the Supreme Court determined that this sort of population disparity violated the federal constitution. The group claimed . . . I think it is established that "this Court has power to afford relief in a case of this type as against the objection that the issues are not justiciable," [*] and I cannot subscribe to any possible implication to the contrary which [p51] may lurk in MR. JUSTICE HARLAN's dissenting opinion. The following data were collected on the number of nonconformities per unit for 10 time periods: TimeNonconformitiesperUnitTimeNonconformitiesperUnit176523733685439254100\begin{array}{cc|cc} Baker v. Carr: Supreme Court Case, Arguments, Impact. . Next, Justice Brennan found that Baker and his fellow plaintiffs had standing to sue because, the voters were alleging "facts showing disadvantage to themselves as individuals.". 1896) 15. A property or taxpaying qualification was in effect almost everywhere. at 437-438, 439-441, 444-445, 453-455 (Luther Martin of Maryland); id. The case was heard by a three-judge District Court, which found unanimously, from facts not disputed, that: It is clear by any standard . The 37 "constitutional" Representatives are those coming from the eight States which elected their Representatives at large (plus one each elected at large in Connecticut, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, and Texas) and those coming from States in which the difference between the populations of the largest and smallest districts was less than 100,000. It soon became clear that the Confederation was without adequate power to collect needed revenues or to enforce the rules its Congress adopted. Further, on in the same number of The Federalist, Madison pointed out the fundamental cleavage which Article I made between apportionment of Representatives among the States and the selection of Representatives within each State: It is a fundamental principle of the proposed Constitution that, as the aggregate number of representatives allotted to the several States is to be determined by a federal rule founded on the aggregate number of inhabitants, so the right of choosing this allotted number in each State is to be exercised by such part of the inhabitants as the State itself may designate. 491,461277,861213,600, NorthDakota(2). The legislative history of the 1929 Act is carefully reviewed in Wood v. Broom, 287 U.S. 1. at 357. [n37]. As late as 1842, seven States still conducted congressional elections at large. Does the number of districts within the State have any relevance? . . 735; Act of Jan. 16, 1901, 3, 31 Stat. . 1343(3), asking that the Georgia statute be declared invalid and that the appellees, the Governor and Secretary of State of Georgia, be enjoined from conducting elections under it. ." These remarks of Madison were in response to a proposal to strike out the provision for congressional supervisory power over the regulation of elections in Art. The electors are to be the great body of the people of the United States. A more obvious departure was the provision that each State shall have a Representative regardless of its population. 522,813265,164257,649, Pennsylvania(27). In Baker v. Carr, the court determined that the legislative apportionment was a legitimate concern, whereas in Wesberry v. Sanders, the court found that Georgia's apportionment plan grossly discriminated against Fifth Congressional District voters because they were 2 to 3 times as numerous and as a result underrepresented in terms of no one district electing more than one Representative. . [n1] In all but five of those States, the difference between [p21] the populations of the largest and smallest districts exceeded 100,000 persons. CLARK, J., Concurring in Part, Dissenting in Part. . . 42-45. . Tennessee had undergone a population shift in which thousands of people flooded urban areas, abandoning the rural countryside. Typical of recent proposed legislation is H.R. Carr and Wesberry v. Sanders have been argued before Australias High Court. (For a book-length discussion, see here.). 660,345237,235423,110, Georgia(10). ; H.R. Members of the first are elected from each state in proportion to that states population; in the second, each state is represented by the same number of senators (in Australia, it is currently 12 senators for each state, while the two mainland territories have two senators each). 1836) 11 (Fisher Ames, in the Massachusetts Convention) (hereafter cited as "Elliot"); id. I, 3, and it was specially provided in Article V that no State should ever be deprived of its equal representation in the Senate. None of the Court's references [p34] to the ratification debates supports the view that the provision for election of Representatives "by the People" was intended to have any application to the apportionment of Representatives within the States; in each instance, the cited passage merely repeats what the Constitution itself provides: that Representatives were to be elected by the people of the States. . Baker v. Carr (1962) was a landmark case concerning re-apportionment and redistricting. Whatever the dominant political philosophy at the Convention, one thing seems clear: it is in the last degree unlikely that most or even many of the delegates would have subscribed to the [p31] principle of "one person, one vote," ante, p. 18. 5 & 4 & 10 & 0 ." . . Appellants are qualified voters in Georgia's Fifth Congressional District, the population of which is two to three times greater than that of some other congressional districts in the State. 12. . Which of the following was a reason the framers of the Constitution created a federal system of government? 505,465463,80041,665, Maryland(8). Chief Justice Earl Warren called Baker v. Carr the most important case of his tenure on the Supreme Court. at 461-462 (William Samuel Johnson). . Baker v. Carr outlined that legislative apportionment is a justiciable non-political question. On the other hand, I agree with the majority that congressional districting is subject to judicial scrutiny. 5, 6; Act of Feb. 7, 1891, 3, 26 Stat. [n30] The Constitution embodied Edmund Randolph's proposal for a periodic census to ensure "fair representation of the people," [n31] an idea endorsed by Mason as assuring that "numbers of inhabitants" [p14] should always be the measure of representation in the House of Representatives. Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. There is no entanglement doctrine in Australian constitutional law. King stated that the power of Congress under 4 was necessary to "control in this case"; otherwise, he said, The representatives . If youre looking for levity, look no further. Is the standard an absolute or relative one, and, if the latter, to what is the difference in population to be related? 2 id. In the absence of a reapportionment, all the Representatives from a State found to have violated the standard would presumably have to be elected at large. . The constitutional scheme vests in the States plenary power to regulate the conduct of elections for Representatives, and, in order to protect the Federal Government, provides for congressional supervision of the States' exercise of their power. Each of the other three cases cited by the Court, ante, p. 17, similarly involved acts which were prosecuted as violations of federal statutes. Although it was held in Ex parte Yarbrough, 110 U.S. 651, and subsequent cases, that the right to vote for a member of Congress depends on the Constitution, the opinion noted that the legislatures of the States prescribe the qualifications for electors of the legislatures and thereby for electors of the House of Representatives. . . Georgias Fifth congressional district had two to three times more voters compared to other Georgia districts. Id. In deciding whether this law is constitutional, which of the following issues are the courts likely to consider most important? . . 70 Cong.Rec. . The shortness of the time remaining [before the next election] makes it doubtful whether action could, or would, be taken in time to secure for petitioners the effective relief they seek. The only State in which the average population per district is greater than 500,000 is Connecticut, where the average population per district is 507,047 (one Representative being elected at large). 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