Baker v. Carr
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baker-v-carr-178-15163955
title:
Baker v. Carr
text:
Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186 (1962), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that redistricting qualifies as a justiciable question under the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause, thus enabling federal courts to hear Fourteenth Amendment-based redistricting cases. The court summarized its Baker holding in a later decision as follows: "the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment limits the authority of a State Legislature in designing the geogr
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1962 United States Supreme Court case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_v._Carr
date created:
2003-06-15T15:24:40Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T19:34:19Z
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