...plays an important role in the apportionment cases decided by the Supreme Court in the early 1960s. "No right is more precious in a free country than...the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined." Gray u Sanders, cited in Reynolds u Sims 377 US 533, at 558 (1964). Or again: "Especially...

...struck down Georgia's congressional apportionment because it denied many of Georgia's citizens an equal "voice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live," the Rehnquist Court has reintroduced precisely that possibility by foreclosing Georgia's black citizens...

...population and provide for popular election. Calling the right to vote "precious," he said that all "other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined."7 The justice sought to make clear that the longtime deviation in the states from a standard...

...votes are to be recovered from spoiled ballots, presumably no more lax a standard would be appropriate. more precious in a free country than that of having...make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live"70 — as an aspect of the "liberty" that the Fourteenth Amendment protects against deprivation...

...States or from under the aegis of the Constitution. — Justice Sutherland, O'Donoghue v. United States1 No right is more precious in a free country than that...the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined. Our Constitution leaves no room for classification of people in a way that unnecessarily...

...what the Supreme Court has called the most precious right of American citizens. In the Court's words: No right is more precious in a free country than that...even the most basic, are illusory if the right to The District of Columbia has a non-voting delegate in the House of Representatives, but has never had...

...what the Supreme Court has called the most precious right of American citizens. In the Court's words: No right is more precious in a free country than that...who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we roust live. Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to The District of Columbia...

...franchise in a free and unimpaired manner is preservative of other basic civil and political rights. . . ." "Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined." As we understand appellees, this is an argument that, at least for purposes of determining...

...election is almost infinitesimal. In Reynolds v. Sims, the Supreme Court quoted an earlier case that said, "No right is more precious in a free country than...the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined. Our Constitution leaves no room for classification of people in a way that unnecessarily...

...Authority to Pass Legislation Giving District of Columbia Citizens Voting Representation in Congress 2 No right is more precious in a free country than...even the most basic, are illusory if the right to The half million citizens of the District of Columbia, like citizens of the fifty states, bear all...