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Supreme Court Cases: Baker V. Carr

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In the United States, the Supreme Court spends the majority of its time on things that are not appointed to them by the Constitution. An example of this would be when the constitutionality of a law is questioned or challenged. The process of Judicial Review is when the Supreme Court sorts out what they think is constitutional and not constitutional. One Supreme Court case that questioned a law’s constitutionality is Baker v. Carr in 1962. Charles Baker, resident of Tennessee, filed a lawsuit against the secretary of state, Joe Carr. He stated that the Tennessee legislative districts had not been redrawn since 1901. The Supreme Court said that only federal courts have the authority to determine the constitutionality of the voting districts for …show more content…

This allows states to determine jurisdictional boundaries accurately. "Sec. 6. Apportionment of senators.—The number of Senators shall, at the several periods of making the enumeration, be apportioned among the several counties or districts according to the number of qualified electors in each, and shall not exceed one-third the number of representatives. In apportioning the Senators among the different counties, the fraction that may be lost by any county or counties, in the apportionment of members to the House of Representatives, shall be made up to such county or counties in the Senate, as near as may be practicable. When a district is composed of two or more counties, they shall be adjoining; and no county shall be divided in forming a district." ("Baker v. Carr, 369 US 186 - Supreme Court 1962,") The Supreme Court had a 6-2 ruling in their final decision on the case, in favor of …show more content…

In the United States Constitution, the Fourteenth Amendment does not allow the government to interfere with an individual’s right to pursue happiness. The Federal Government has the ability to rule over laws in a situation where advantages are unfair with the creation of a law. Rights were expanded to ensure that equal legal process is respected within the United States. The decision the Supreme Court came to required redistricting of the counties in Tennessee every 10 years when the census is

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1962 marked the beginning of a new era for the South. Baker Vs. Carr, a landmark Supreme Court Case, determined that malappropriated state legislatures were unconstitutional. The Baker Decision resulted in an increase of legislators from urban districts. Rural legislators, who were once in complete control of state capitols, could no longer dominate legislatures in the South.

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Case Brief Case Information The United States Supreme Court decided Missouri v. Galin E. Frye on March 21, 2012. Case Facts In August of 2007, defendant Galin E. Frye was charged with driving with a revoked license; he had already been convicted three times for the same offense and Missouri charged him with a class D felony, which carries a maximum prison term of four years.

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Jeremiah Harrington 855 Stonebridge Circle Eldridge, IA 52748. April 23, 2024 Scott County Courthouse 400 W. 4th St.. Davenport, IA 52801. Dear Jury Members: Wouldn’t you be happier if there were fewer crimes in the U.S. that led to deaths and injuries? Well, so would I.

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When people think of how government works, unless they’ve taken a government class, they usually think of Congress making laws and the President doing pretty much everything else. No one pays much attention to the Supreme Court unless there is a landmark case or something else to grab the news — like the recent death of Justice Antonin Scalia. But the Supreme Court does much more than you’d think regarding keeping the political machine running like a well-oiled … machine. Through not only interpretation of the law, but also judicial activism, the Supreme Court shows it can have as much influence over the laws of the land as either of the other branches of the federal government. In this paper, I will analyze the decision-making methods of the Court using the cases of Gideon v. Wainwright and Betts v. Brady.

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Mapp v. Ohio Throughout the last 70 years, there have been many cases that the U.S. Supreme Court has decided upon leading to many advancements in the U.S. Constitution. Many of the cases have created laws that we still use today. In the case I chose, Dollree Mapp was convicted of possessing obscene materials, four little pamphlets, a couple of photos, and a little pencil doodle, after an illegal police search of her home for a suspected bomber. No suspect was found, but she was arrested.

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Many critics, including myself, believe that the United States Supreme Court incorrectly decided the case of Michael H. vs. Gerald D. The case was argued on October 11th, 1988 and the Court decided their stance on June 15th, 1989. The court decided that a father related by blood to his child that was also seen as adulterous, does not have the constitutional rights to paternity over the father who is married to the mother of said child. Contradicting this stance, many critics have stated their opinions on the matter.

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As defined in the Meriam Webster Dictionary the words Supreme Court is the highest court of law in a country or U.S. state. Also defined in the Meriam Webster Dictionary is the words judicial review it is a constitutional doctrine that gives to a court system the power to annul legislative or executive acts which the judges declare to be unconstitutional. In the Supreme Court case of Texas v. Johnson, Gregory Lee Johnson had burned an American flag. He burned the flag because he was protesting the policies that President Ronald Reagan had enacted.

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Carr (1962). Plaintiff Charles Baker, mayor of Millington, Tennessee, challenged the Tennessee General Assembly for not adhering to the requirement to redraw legislative districts every ten years. The Supreme Court was to decide whether the redistricting of state legislative districts is a “political question” or an issue that can be resolved by federal courts. In American Constitutional law, the political question doctrine is closely linked to the concept of justifiability, or in other words, whether a court system should have the authority to here a particular case in the matter. In this particular case, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the redistricting of state legislative districts does not qualify as a political question.

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The 14th Amendment right to equal protection as recognized under Baker v Carr designed on the surface to ensure fair participation in the democratic process, however, it is more so a check on the majority. As Baker v Carr introduces, the 14th Amendment does not cover all types of discrimination. For example, discrimination by the means of improper districting of a state, intentional or not, is not covered by the Constitution. However, what the 14th Amendment does do effectively is put a check on the majority will through rights. The majority rules and the only way to prevent this is through rights, which dictate what people are and are not allowed to do.

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This states that even though that bigger states have more representatives, it puts the limit that the number of representatives for each state by ensuring that one state doesn’t exceed one for every thirty thousand people. This prevents tyranny in the House of Representatives. In Article 1, Section 3 it states, “The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each state, chosen by the legislatures thereof for six years; and each senator shall have one vote.” (Source: Constitution of the United States of America, 1787.) This article means that every state has two senators so it doesn’t matter how big a population of a state is.

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