similarities between baker v carr and wesberry v sanders

In 1901, Tennessee's population totaled just 2,020,616 and only 487,380 residents were eligible to vote. Madison entreated the Convention "to renounce a principle which. I believe that the court erred in so doing. . At another point in the debates, Representative Lozier stated that Congress lacked "power to determine in what manner the several States exercise their sovereign rights in selecting their Representatives in Congress. 7-8. [n31]. 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. . ; H.R. . It is surely beyond debate that the Constitution did not require the slave States to apportion their Representatives according to the dispersion of slaves within their borders. StateandLargestand, NumberofLargestSmallestSmallest, Representatives**DistrictDistrictDistricts, Arizona(3). I, 4, [n43]as meant to be used to vindicate the people's right to equality of representation in the House. . ; H.R. Wesberry v. Sanders (No. Stripped of rhetoric and a "historical context," ante, p. 7, which bears little resemblance to the evidence found in the pages of history, see infra, pp. The district court dismissed the complaint for non-justiciability and want 1496. 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. 2648, 82d Cong., 1st Sess. Baker's suit detailed how Tennessee's reapportionment efforts ignored significant economic growth Thorpe, op. Wesberry v. Sanders is a landmark case because it mandated that congressional districts throughout the country must be roughly equal in population. 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. I, 4. See notes 1 and 2, supra. Opinions to start the day, in your inbox. Is the number of voters or the number of inhabitants controlling? There were no separate judicial or executive branches: only a Congress consisting of a single house. . The second question, which concerned two congressional apportionment measures, was whether the Act of June 18, 1929, 46 Stat. I, 2, guarantees each of these States and every other State "at Least one Representative." 70 Cong.Rec. the Constitution has already given decision making power to a specific political department. I, 4, which the Court so pointedly neglects. The debates in the ratifying conventions, as clearly as Madison's statement at the Philadelphia Convention, supra, pp. 3, 1928, 69 Cong.Rec. But since the slaves added to the representation only of their own State, Representatives [p28] from the slave States could have been thought to speak only for the slaves of their own States, indicating both that the Convention believed it possible for a Representative elected by one group to speak for another nonvoting group and that Representatives were in large degree still thought of as speaking for the whole population of a State. Baker v. Carr outlined that legislative apportionment is a justiciable non-political question. Supra, p. 22. May the State consider factors such as area or natural boundaries (rivers, mountain ranges) which are plainly relevant to the practicability of effective representation? at 533. All districts have roughly equal populations within states. In 1960, the federal census revealed that the state's population had grown by more than a million, totaling 3,567,089, and its voting population had swelled to 2,092,891. How great a difference between the populations of various districts within a State is tolerable? Once it is clear that there is no constitutional right at stake, that ends the case. . [n4] Thus, today's decision impugns the validity of the election of 398 Representatives from 37 States, leaving a "constitutional" House of 37 members now sitting. What was an immediate consequence of these rulings? Within this scheme, the appellants do not have the right which they assert, in the absence of provision for equal districts by the Georgia Legislature or the Congress. . . It soon became clear that the Confederation was without adequate power to collect needed revenues or to enforce the rules its Congress adopted. As in Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, which involved alleged malapportionment of seats in a state legislature, the District Court had jurisdiction of the subject matter; appellants had standing to sue, and they had stated a justiciable cause of action on which relief could be granted. [n44] In 1872, Congress required that Representatives, be elected by districts composed of contiguous territory, and containing as [p43] nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants, . [n6]. The constitutional requirement in Art. . . Despite the apparent fear that 4 would be abused, no one suggested that it could safely be deleted because 2 made it unnecessary. 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.' . . 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. . The provision for representation of each State in the House of Representatives is not a mere exception to the principle framed by the majority; it shows that no such principle is to be found. One of the three judges on the panel dissented from the result. 1081 (remarks of Mr. Moser). 34. . 1983 and 1988 and 28 U.S.C. While those who wanted both houses to represent the people had yielded on the Senate, they had not yielded on the House of Representatives. (For more detail, see here). 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. The Court's "as nearly as is practicable" formula sweeps a host of questions under the rug. 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. at 374. ; H.R. 30-41, the Court's opinion supports its holding only with the bland assertion that "the principle of a House of Representatives elected by the People'" would be "cast aside" if "a vote is worth more in one district than in another," ante, p. 8, i.e., if congressional districts within a State, each electing a single Representative, are not equal in population . [n36] Section 2 was not mentioned. [n37]. . There is nothing to indicate any limitation whatsoever on this grant of plenary initial and supervisory power. . What was the significance of Baker v Carr 1961? Despite population growth, the Tennessee General Assembly failed to enact a re-apportionment plan. Nothing that the Court does today will disturb the fact that, although in 1960 the population of an average congressional district was 410,481, [n11] the States of Alaska, Nevada, and Wyoming [p29] each have a Representative in Congress, although their respective populations are 226,167, 285,278, and 330,066. http://landmarkcases.c-span.org/Case/10/Baker-V-Carrhttps://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/369/186, http://landmarkcases.c-span.org/Case/10/Baker-V-Carr, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/369/186. Baker v. Carr: Supreme Court Case, Arguments, Impact - ThoughtCo [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. 2. 5, 6; Act of Feb. 7, 1891, 3, 26 Stat. [sic] and might materially affect the appointments. Representatives were to be apportioned among the States on the basis of free population plus three-fifths of the slave population. [n19]. In the Pennsylvania convention, James Wilson described Art. (d) Any Representative elected to the Congress from a district which does not conform to the requirements set forth in subsection (c) of this section shall be denied his seat in the House of Representatives and the Clerk of the House shall refuse his credentials. 539,618312,890226,728, Washington(7). It was impossible to foresee all the abuses that might be made of the discretionary power. . 761. The Constitution does not call for equal sized districts, and therefore there is no constitutional right at stake. "[N]umbers," he said, not only are a suitable way to represent wealth, but, in any event, "are the only proper scale of representation." Yet, despite similarities in judicial interpretation, important differences remain. 5 & 4 & 10 & 0 * Georgia Laws, Sept.-Oct. 1962, Extra.Sess. 32-33, indicate that, under 4, the state legislatures, subject only to the ultimate control of Congress, could district as they chose. 2836, H.R. The cases of McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) and Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) established what legal precedent? or [who] have rented a tenement . A three-judge District Court, though recognizing the gross population imbalance of the Fifth District in relation to the other districts, dismissed the complaint for "want of equity.". ." Cf. The delegates were quite aware of what Madison called the "vicious representation" in Great Britain [n35] whereby "rotten boroughs" with few inhabitants were represented in Parliament on or almost on a par with cities of greater population. Did Tennessee deny Baker equal protection when it failed to update its apportionment plan? Plaintiffs sought an injunction to prevent any further elections until the legislature had passed new redistricting laws to 627,019223,387403,632, Texas(23). . 17 Law & Contemp.Prob. [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. In urging the people to adopt the Constitution, Madison said in No. This Again, in Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 232 (1962), the opinion of the Court recognized that Smiley "settled the issue in favor of justiciability of questions of congressional redistricting." 5. 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. . 4054. This diversity would be obviously unjust. In my view, we should therefore vacate this judgment and remand the case for a hearing [p20] on the merits. Since there is only one Congressman for each district, this inequality of population means that the Fifth District's Congressman has to represent from two to three times as many people as do Congressmen from some of the other Georgia districts. IV Elliot's Debates 257. In that case, the Court had declared re-apportionment a "political thicket." At its founding, the Constitution was approved by the people of each state, voting in referenda. 2, c. 26, Schedule. . The provisions for apportioning Representatives and direct taxes have been amended by the Fourteenth and Sixteenth Amendments, respectively. The purpose was to adjust to changes in the states population. In addition, the majoritys analysis is clouded by too many indirect issues to focus on the real issue at hand. Traditionally, particularly in the South, the WebCharles W. Baker and other Tennessee citizens argued that a 1901 law designed to apportion the seats for the state's General Assembly was virtually ignored. . 54, discussed infra pp. . He stated that his proposal was designed to prevent elections at large, which might result in all the representatives being "taken from a small part of the state." . The failure gave significant power to voters in rural areas, and took away power from voters in suburban and urban parts of the state. 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 However, in my view, Brother HARLAN has clearly demonstrated that both the historical background and language preclude a finding that Art. 6, c. 66, Second Schedule, and of 1958, 6 & 7 Eliz. 53. The truth is that it does not. Between 1901 and 1960, the population of Tennessee grew significantly. . 12. . Section 4 states without qualification that the state legislatures shall prescribe regulations for the conduct of elections for Representatives and, equally without qualification, that Congress may make or [p30] alter such regulations. Section 5 of Article I, which provides that "Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members," also points away from the Court's conclusion. 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. Baker, like many other residents in urban areas of Tennessee, found himself in a situation where his vote counted for less due to a lack of representation, his attorneys argued. Bakers argument stated that because the districts had not been redrawn and the rural district had ten times fewer people, the rural votes essentially counted more denying him equal protection of the law. a. Construct the appropriate control chart and determine the LCL and UCL. [n15], Repeatedly, delegates rose to make the same point: that it would be unfair, unjust, and contrary to common sense to give a small number of people as many Senators or Representatives as were allowed to much larger groups [n16] -- in short, as James Wilson of Pennsylvania [p11] put it, "equal numbers of people ought to have an equal no. [n33] (The particular possibilities that Steele had in mind were apparently that Congress might attempt to prescribe the qualifications for electors or "to make the place of elections inconvenient." During the Revolutionary War, the rebelling colonies were loosely allied in the Continental Congress, a body with authority to do little more than pass resolutions and issue requests for men and supplies. Believing that the complaint fails to disclose a constitutional claim, I would affirm the judgment below dismissing the complaint. 478,962376,336102,626, Michigan(19). 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. Mr. Justice Frankfurter did not, of course, speak for a majority of the Court in Colegrove, but refusal for that reason to give the opinion precedential effect does not justify refusal to give appropriate attention to the views there expressed. II Elliot's Debates on the Federal Constitution (2d ed. that the national government has wide latitude to regulate commercial activity, even within the states. 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. The subject of districting within the States is discussed explicitly with reference to the provisions of Art. 8. ." Since I believe that the Constitution expressly provides that state legislatures and the Congress shall have exclusive jurisdiction over problems of congressional apportionment of the kind involved in this case, there is no occasion for me to consider whether, in the absence of such provision, other provisions of the Constitution, relied on by the appellants, would confer on them the rights which they assert. Smiley v. Holm, 285 U.S. 355, Koenig v. Flynn, 285 U.S. 375, and Carroll v. Becker, 285 U.S. 380, concerned the choice of Representatives in the Federal Congress. Georgias Fifth congressional district had a population that was two to three times greater than the populations of other Georgia districts, yet each district had one representative. 553,154303,026250,128, RhodeIsland(2). Baker argued that re-apportionment was vital to the equality in the democratic process. Under the Tennessee Constitution, legislative districts were required to be drawn every ten years. d. Reporters were given less access to cover combat. Spitzer, Elianna. Despite a swell in population, certain urban areas were still receiving the same amount of representatives as rural areas with far less voters. [n21] Mr. King noted the situation in Connecticut, where "Hartford, one of their largest towns, sends no more delegates than one of their smallest corporations," and in South Carolina: The back parts of Carolina have increased greatly since the adoption of their constitution, and have frequently attempted an alteration of this unequal mode of representation, but the members from Charleston, having the balance so much in their favor, will not consent to an alteration, and we see that the delegates from Carolina in Congress have always been chosen by the delegates of that city. The majoritys decision fails to base its holding on both history and existing precedent. XIII, with N.J.Const., 1844, Art. A majority of the Court in Colegrove v. Green felt, upon the authority of Smiley, that the complaint presented a justiciable controversy not reserved exclusively to Congress. . . 3 & 6 & 8 & 5 \\ Again in Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 232, 82 S.Ct. 506,854378,499128,355, Montana(2). 1896) 15. The remarks of Madison cited by the Court are as follows: The necessity of a Genl. WebAs in Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186 , which involved alleged malapportionment of seats in a state legislature, the District Court had jurisdiction of the subject matter; appellants had . In 1901, the Tennessee General Assembly passed an apportionment act. [n48]. The following data were collected on the number of nonconformities per unit for 10 time periods: TimeNonconformitiesperUnitTimeNonconformitiesperUnit176523733685439254100\begin{array}{cc|cc} 276, 279-280. 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. On the other hand, I agree with the majority that congressional districting is subject to judicial scrutiny. [n23], Mr. PARSONS contended for vesting in Congress the powers contained in the 4th section [of Art. . . WebWesberry v. Sanders (1964) Case Summary. Farsighted men felt that a closer union was necessary if the States were to be saved from foreign and domestic dangers. 30. . . 5-6. . 6428, 83d Cong., 1st Sess. I, 4, which empowered the "Legislature" of a State to prescribe the regulations for congressional elections meant that a State could not by law provide for a Governor's veto over such regulations as had been prescribed by the legislature. Is the standard an absolute or relative one, and, if the latter, to what is the difference in population to be related? Yet, even here, the U.S. model was influential. In The Federalist, No. 56. Justice Whittaker recused himself. . She has also worked at the Superior Court of San Francisco's ACCESS Center. . 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. 4368 (remarks of Mr. Rankin), 4369 (remarks of Mr. McLeod), 4371 (remarks of Mr. McLeod); 87 Cong.Rec. 1. . Today's decision has portents for our society and the Court itself which should be recognized. 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 passage from which the Court quotes, ante, p. 18, concludes with the following, overlooked by the Court: They [the electors] are to be the same who exercise the right in every State of electing the correspondent branch of the Legislature of the State. . 585,586255,165330,421, NewYork(41). . Switzerland consists of 26 cantons. 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. \hline 1 & 7 & 6 & 5 \\ This would leave a House of Representatives composed of the 22 Representatives elected at large plus eight elected in congressional districts. How does Greece's location continue to shape its economic activities? at 197-198 (Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania) id. 54, at 368. That district, one of ten created by a 1931 Georgia statute, [n1] includes Fulton, DeKalb, and Rockdale Counties, and has a population, according to the 1960 census, of 823,680. at 489-490 (Rufus King of Massachusetts); id. The main reason for this is that Australians modeled their 1901 constitution on the American example. of representatives . Only in this context, in order to establish that the right to vote in a congressional election was a right protected by federal law, did the Court hold that the right was dependent on the Constitution and not on the law of the States. 482,872375,475107,397, Mississippi(5). . I, 4. 36.Id. There is no entanglement doctrine in Australian constitutional law. 51 powers in order to implement treaties. After the Gulf War was over, 151515 influential news organizations sent a letter to the secretary of defense complaining that the rules for reporting the war were designed more to control the news than to facilitate it. v. Varsity Brands, Inc. Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer. I, 2, which provides for the apportionment of Representatives among the States. ; H.R. In sharp contrast to this unanimous silence on the issue of this case when Art. I, 2, on which the Court exclusively relies, confers the right to vote for Representatives only on those whom the State has found qualified to vote for members of "the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature." . In the last congressional election, in 1962, Representatives from 42 States were elected from congressional districts. 33.Id. Federal courts could create discoverable and manageable standards for granting relief in equal protection cases. . "Baker v. Carr: Supreme Court Case, Arguments, Impact." 42. 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