Constitutional Law Stories by Dorf Michael

Author:Dorf, Michael
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: West Academic
Published: 2009-07-08T00:00:00+00:00

______________________

* The authors wish to thank Maclin Davis, Harrison Gilbert, and John Seigenthaler for their time and support for this project, and to thank Daniel Suleiman for his research assistance. Ansolabehere gratefully acknowledges the support of the Carnegie Foundation for this research.

1 Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 254 (1962) (Clark, J., concurring).

2 Earl Warren, The Memoirs of Earl Warren 306 (1977), quoted in Lucas A. Powe, Jr., The Warren Court and American Politics 200 (2000).

3 For the relevant provisions of the Tennessee Constitution, see Baker, 369 U.S. at 188–89.

4 Powe, supra note 2, at 200.

5 Id.

6 Baker, 369 U.S. at 192.

7 See Kidd v. McCanless, 292 S.W.2d 40 (Tenn. 1956), cert. denied, 352 U.S. 920 (1956).

8 Gene Graham, One Man, One Vote: Baker v. Carr and the American Levellers 15 (1972).

9 Baker, 369 U.S. at 259 (Clark, J., concurring).

10 Id. at 209.

11 For a list of congressionally-maldistricted states as of 1958 population figures, see Anthony Lewis, Legislative Apportionment and the Federal Courts, 71 Harv. L. Rev. 1057, 1062 n.26 (1958).

12 Powe, supra note 2, at 200.

13 Colegrove v. Green, 328 U.S. 549 (1946).

14 Id.

15 Id. at 569 (Black, J., dissenting).

16 Colegrove v. Green, 64 F.Supp. 632, 633 (N.D. Ill. 1946) (per curiam).

17 Id. at 633.

18 Id. at 634 (relying on Wood v. Broom, 287 U.S. 1, 6 (1932)).

19 Id.

20 Colegrove, 328 U.S. at 569–70 (Black, J., dissenting).

21 Id. at 565 (Rutledge, J., concurring).

22 Id. at 556 (Opinion of Frankfurter, J.).

23 Id. at 553 (Opinion of Frankfurter, J.).

24 Id.

25 Id. (Opinion of Frankfurter, J.).

26 Id. at 565–66 (Rutledge, J., concurring).

27 Id. at 552 (Opinion of Frankfurter, J.).

28 Id. at 556 (Opinion of Frankfurter, J.).

29 Lewis, supra note 11, at 1091–92 (footnote omitted).

30 Powe, supra note 2, at 200.

31 John F. Kennedy, ’The Shame of the States’, N.Y. Times Mag., May 18, 1958, at 12, 37.

32 See, e.g., Kidd v. McCanless, 352 U.S. 920 (1956); South v. Peters, 339 U.S. 276 (1950); MacDougall v. Green, 335 U.S. 281 (1948).

33 364 U.S. 339 (1960).

34 Gomillion v. Lightfoot, 167 F.Supp. 405, 407 (M.D. Ala. 1958).

35 Gomillion, 364 U.S. at 340.

36 Id. at 347.

37 Id. at 346.

38 Id. at 346–47.

39 Graham, supra note 8, at 223.

40 Gomillion, 364 U.S. at 342.

41 Id. at 347.

42 Paul T. David and Ralph Eisenberg, Devaluation of the Urban and Suburban Vote: A Statistical Investigation of Long–Term Trends in State Legislative Representation 7–16 (1961).

43 Ward E.Y. Elliott, The Rise of Guardian Democracy 13–16 (1974).

44 See Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 613–14 (1964) (Harlan, J., dissenting) (providing history of post-Colegrove litigation, including summary affirmances by Supreme Court).

45 Gordon E. Baker, State Constitutions: Reapportionment 1–23, 63–70 (1960); Robert B. McKay, Reapportionment: The Law and Politics of Equal Representation 459–75 (1965).

46 See Wesley W. Horton, Connecticut Constitutional History, 1776–1988, at 22–24, in Connecticut’s Four Constitutions (1988), available at http://www.cslib.org/cts4ch.htm (last modified Dec. 1, 2008).

47 See McKay, supra note 45, at 380–90, 397–401.

48 These are Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Oregon, Texas, and Washington.

49 Stephen Ansolabehere et al., Why Did

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.