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Revision as of 17:13, June 26, 2022
| Baker v. Carr | |
| Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
|---|---|
| Citation | 369 U.S. 186 (1962) |
| Date decided | 1962 |
Facts
Prior to this case, state legislatures weren't organized by populations.[1]
Resources
Issues
Whether an equal protection challenge to malapportionment of state legislatures is a non-justiciable political question.
Holding/Decision
Apportionment cases can involve no federal constitutional right except one resting on the guaranty of a republican form of government, and complaints based on that clause have been held to present political questions which are non-justiciable.
Rules
Issues involving political questions
- a textually demonstrable constitutional commitment of the issue to a coordinate political department
- a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving it
- the impossibility of deciding without an initial policy determination of a kind clearly nonjudicial discretion
- the impossibility of a court’s undertaking independent resolution without expressing lack of the respect due coordinate branches of government
- an unusual need for unquestioning adherence to a political decision already made
- the potentiality of embarrassment from multifarious pronouncements by various departments on one question
Dissent
The present case involves all the elements which have made the Guarantee Clause cases non-justiciable.
