Baker v. Carr

The purpose of reapportionment is to make sure that everyone has more or less an equal # of people living in their district. 

• True

• False

By the time this case reaches the courts there are some districts that are ______times larger in population than others in the state. 

• 2

• 5

• 10

• 20

The Supreme Court rules that there is federal jurisdiction in the Baker cause because of the Constitutional principle of "one person, one vote" by a _______vote. 

• 7-2

• 5-4

• 9-0

• 6-2

The significance of Baker was that prior to this case the Supreme Court said that reapportionment, redistricting, gerrymandering were "political" issues and therefore not for the courts to rule on, however Baker says the issues of malapportioned districts IS a constitutional question. 

• True

• False

The courts decided this was a 

• civil liberties issue

• commerce issue

• voting rights issue

• implied power issue

What allowed this argument to stand was the equal protection clause of which amendment?

• 14th

• 15th

• 19th

• 26th

The biggest issue in Baker v. Carr was

• the need to ensure that all polling places were equally available in all districts

• that districts with only a few hundred people in them had more say through their vote than districts with several thousand people

• how to create less voter intimidation at the polls

• how to ensure voter registration was not only happening in high income populations

We should assume that EVERY federal district drawn in the US today is about equal with one another as a result of this case. 

• True

• False

Malapportionment means

• every district is equal

• some districts have been drawn with a much larger population than others

• all districts were drawn with ill intent

• the Senate is misrepresented here