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Gray v. Sanders, 372 U.S. 368 (1963), was a Supreme Court of the United States case dealing with equal representation in regard to the American election system and formulated the famous "one person, one vote" standard applied in this case for "counting votes in a Democratic primary election for the nomination of a United States Senator and statewide officers — which was practically ...
[12] [16] The "one person, one vote" doctrine, which requires electoral districts to be apportioned according to population, thus making each district roughly equal in population, was further affirmed by the Warren Court in the landmark cases that followed Baker, including Gray v. Sanders, 372 U.S. 368 (1963), which concerned the county unit ...
Wesberry v. Sanders , 376 U.S. 1 (1964), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that districts in the United States House of Representatives must be approximately equal in population.
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Case name Citation Date decided New Jersey v. New York, S. & W.R. Co. 372 U.S. 1: 1963: McCulloch v. Sociedad Nacional de Marineros: 372 U.S. 10: 1963
John Sanders was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. But last year, new medical opinions led to him be granted a new trial. Lansing man convicted of murder in daughter's ...
Following the 1962 Baker v. Carr decision, James Sanders, a voter in Fulton County, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia which challenged the legality of the county unit system. James H. Gray, the chairman of the State Executive Committee of the Democratic Party, was one of the defendants named in the ...