ionment violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
             "Charles Baker, an elected official from suburban Shelby County, was first alphabetically in a long list of plaintiffs. Secretary of State Joe Carr, who served as Tennessee's head of elections, represented the defendants." http://www.secstate.wa.gov/oralhistory/redistricting2/1960s/1962/1962_courtCases.aspx.
             In Court action that had taken place before Baker v. Carr (1962),
             "...numerous actions had been filed on various constitutional theories to correct this imbalance. The federal courts had carefully avoided the problem. The issues were deemed "political questions" inappropriate for judicial intervention."
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