[The Man]

You stated:

In answer to one question on the Senate questionnaire, she referred to the proportional representation requirement of the equal protection clause. I'll have to learn about that one, which I haven't heard about in 14 years of teaching con law.:)

Get on Westlaw and look up the equal protection clause jurisprudence on one man one vote. Does the case name Baker v. Carr ring a bell?

[phelanw]

In Baker v. Carr the court answered one main question: is malapportionment justiciable? It had nothing to do with proportional representation. I think Frankfurter's dissent was on target.

The majority opinion was written by Brennan, the icon of liberal activism. Next.