Who won the Baker v. Carr case?

Question

The title pretty much says it all.

Answer 1

Charles Baker's complaint was that his district (including Memphis) had about 10 times the population of several rural Tennessee districts, because Tennessee had not redistricted since 1901. He sued Joe Carr, as the Secretary of State of Tennessee.

The Court ruled in favor of Baker, starting a line of cases heard in which the Court laid out requirements for voting including:
* the famous "one-man, one-vote" standard for legislative districting, holding that each individual had to be weighted equally in legislative apportionment.
* In states with bi-cameral legislatures, both houses had to be apportioned on this standard, voiding the provision of the Arizona constitution which had provided for two state senators from each county, the California constitution providing for one senator from each county, and similar provisions elsewhere.

Answer 2

Baker Vs Carr 1962

Answer 3

Baker Vs Carr Case

Answer 4

Here's a surprise. Of course a book by Jimmy Carter* would be serious and high-minded, But this book is also well-written, sometimes funny, intelligent without being preachy, and canny about practical politics in a way that Carter himself, as president, rarely seemed to be. Turning Point is a short book compared to the tomes Carter has produced about his years in office, but it is the best thing he has ever written. I can imagine it being read years from now for what it shows about American life at a certain place and time. It is a shame that Carter could not have written such a book 20 years ago, when it could have affected our view of him as a politician. But it probably would have been impossible for him to do so even if he had tried, since the success of this book depends on a sense of historic and personal distance that Carter could not have developed until now.

The idea behind Turning Point may not sound promising. It concerns a several-month period in the fall of 1962, in which Carter decided to run for the Georgia State Senate. He encountered unusual obstacles (which make up most of the book's narrative), squeaked by them, and eventually won. Carter uses this race mainly as a vehicle for discussing two much larger historical trends. One was the transformation of state politi'cs, especially Southern politics, after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its famous "one man, one vote" ruling, in the Baker v. Carr case in 1962. The other was the challenge to localized political tyranny and oppression--again, especially in the South--that began in the sixties. This challenge involved the "one man" ruling but included many other forces, most notably the civil rights movement later in the decade. In discussing these subjects, Carter has not produced a "policy" book in the conventional sense. He does not offer six-point action plans or detailed proposals for reform. But simply by describing vividly how things were in America's recent past, the book alters our sense of today's politics. Some achievements that we now take for granted--that American citizens are allowed to vote if they register and show up on election day--seem more impressive in light of Carter's tale. Other problems seem more intractable and depressing, since the book shows how long we have tried to cope with them.

Answer 5

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