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BAKER v. CARR 369 U.S. 186

BAKER v. CARR 369 U.S. 186

369 U.S. 186 | 1962-03-26

BAKER v. CARR

369 U.S. 186 (1962)
Decided March 26, 1962.


Article IV, Section. 4. 
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government


Amendment XIV, Section 1.
...[N]or shall any State...deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

 

MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

This civil action was brought under 42 U.S.C. 1983 and 1988 to redress the alleged deprivation of federal constitutional rights. The complaint, alleging that by means of a 1901 statute of Tennessee apportioning the members of the General Assembly among the State's 95...