...proclaimed a plan for House redistricting under the 1963 amendment. Appeals to this Court followed. Held: 1. The seats in both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apportioned substantially on a population basis. Reynolds v. Sims, ante, p. 533, followed. P. 708. 2. Neither of...

...proclaimed a plan for House redistricting under the 1963 amendment. Appeals to this Court followed. Held: 1. The seats in both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apportioned substantially on a population basis. Reynolds v. Sims, ante, p. 533, followed. P. 708. 2. Neither of...

...protected rights demands judicial protection; our oath and our office require no less of us." Therefore: TT "[T]he Equal Protection Clause requires that the seats...legislature must be apportioned on a population basis." QED Those who point to the composition of the national legislature as an analogy to which the states...

...rights demands judicial protection; our oath and our office require no less of us." Therefore: 7T " [T]he Equal Protection Clause requires that the seats...legislature must be apportioned on a population basis." QED Those who point to the composition of the national legislature as an analogy to which the states...

...related cases Is which the Supreme Court ruled that the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment "requires that the seats In both houses of a bicameral...legislature must be apportioned on a population basis," and that while "mathematical exactness of precision" In carving out legislative districts may be Impossible,...

...related cases in which the Supreme Court ruled that me equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment "requires that the seats in both houses of a bicameral...legislature must be apportioned on a population basis," and that while "mathematical exactness of precision" in carving out legislative districts may be Impossible,...

...assertion of jurisdiction in Baker v. Carr, supra. In the case of Reynolds v. Sims' the Court held that, "as a basic constitutional standard, the Equal Protection Clause requires that both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apportioned on a population basis." * Explaining...

...the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In Reynolds, Mr. Chief Justice Warren said : "We hold that, as a basic constitutional standard,...unconstitutionally impaired when its weight is in a substantial fashion diluted when compared with votes of citizens living in other parts of the State...

...the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In Reynolds, Mr. Chief Justice Warren said : "We hold that, as a basic constitutional standard,...both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apport1oned on a population basis. Simply stated, an individual's right to vote for state legislators...

...equal in weight to that of any other citizen in the State." Id., at 579. In other words, "[s] imply stated, an individual's right to vote for state legislators...unconstitutionally impaired when its weight is in a substantial fashion diluted when compared with votes of citizens living in other parts of the State."...