Baker vs. Carr

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Baker vs. Carr

• from choosing any electoral legislative
  structure it thinks best suited to the interests,
  temper, and customs of its people.
• If a State chose to distribute electoral
  strength among geographical units, rather than
  according to a census of population,
• He wrote, that choice isa rational decision of
  policyentitled to equal respect from this Court.

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Main Idea

• Mayor Baker of Nashville Tennessee argued that
  Urban areas, that have grown in size since 1901
  were underrepresented. Baker said that the people
  of urban areas were denied to vote. This of
  course is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment.

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Point of View/ Bias

• The government at the time still abided to the
  population of urban areas from 1901.

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Inferences/Outside Information

• Because of this court case the Court formulated
  the famous one-person, one-vote standard.