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To: The Man
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.

26 posted on 10/20/2005 10:44:10 PM PDT by phelanw
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To: phelanw

Look,

Whether or not Baker v. Carr was wrongly decided, there has been quite an extensive development of Supreme Court and lower court caselaw on the one man one vote principle. As a result of this caselaw, state legislatures are required to draw districts of almost equal population. This is what Ms. Miers appears to be talking about.

Your comment implied that Ms. Miers was making something up or talking about something she didn't understand. I didn't think that was fair to her, since this is in fact a very significant and substantial line of caselaw. I also found it odd that you stated you taught constitutional law and seemed to say that you were not aware that this caselaw existed.

Anyway, have a nice day.


69 posted on 10/23/2005 6:46:55 PM PDT by The Man
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