Baker v. Carr
Except for, arguably, Brown v. Board of Education, Baker v. Carr (1962) "...was one of the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren's most important decisions." (http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=B005).The landmark ruling put into effect what has become known to be the "one man, one vote" standard.The case originated out of the state of Tennessee. The state had reapportioned its legislative districts in 1901, but the state legislature did not reapportion those legislative districts for the next 60 years. In most states during that elapse of time, the rural areas of the country lost population to the cities as a more agrarian way of life in the country gave way to industry, and more people moved from farms into the cities due to the economic pressures of trying to make better money. As a result, urban areas such as Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga grew in size while rural counties such as Smith, Chester, and other rural counties in Tennessee did not see nearly the same level of growth. The result of that 60 years in which Tennessee did not reapportion it's legislative districts was that the weight of a vote of a person living in a rural area carried
The federal courts had carefully avoided the problem. "The question here is the consistency of state action with the Federal Constitution. Justice Frankfurter wrote the dissent; he was joined by Justice Harlan.
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