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Meanwhile, the Court proceeded in Gray v. Sanders (1963) to invalidate Georgia's county-unit system of primary elections. '* * * (T)he reapportionment process is, by its very nature, political * * *. The extent of legislative authority to alter these districts is unclear, but it appears that the structure of three contiguous counties for each of forty-four districts is meant to be permanent. We have been admonished to avoid 'the tyranny of labels.' However, in fairness I do think that Tennessee is entitled to have my idea of what it faces on the record before us and the trial court some light as to how it might proceed. For as the United States guarantee to each State a republican government, Congress must necessarily decide what government is established in the State before it can determine whether it is republican or not. Validity of enactments: In Coleman v. Miller, supra, this Court held that the questions of how long a proposed amendment to the Federal Constitution remained open to ratification, and what effect a prior rejection had on a subsequent ratification, were committed to congressional resolution and involved criteria of decision that necessarily escaped the judicial grasp.41 Similar considerations apply to the enacting process: 'The respect due to coequal and independent departments,' and the need for finality and certainty about the status of a statute contribute to judicial reluctance to inquire whether, as passed, it complied with all requisite formalities. The United States Constitution itself did not largely adopt the principle of numbers. Hence we must accept the present form of the Tennessee Legislature as the embodiment of the State's choice, or, more realistically, its compromise, between competing political philosophies. 701, motion for reargument before the full bench denied, 329 U.S. 828, 67 S.Ct. But it cannot make the case more fit for judicial action that appellants invoke the Fourteenth Amendment rather than Art. 1655. 122, § 2; 1907, ch. § 1343(3), 28 U.S.C.A. In Arkansas, the legislature was authorized, but not commanded, to reapportion periodically; it is not clear that equality was required. 703. See Lewis, Legislative Apportionment and the Federal Courts, 71 Harv.L.Rev. 541, 542 ('citizen of Oklahoma and resident and voter in the most populous county'); Matthews v. Handley, supra ('citizen of the State'); see also Hawke v. Smith (No. 223 U.S., at 141, 32 S.Ct. But upon the application of the governor under the charter government, the President recognized him as the executive power of the State, and took measures to call out the militia to support his authority if it should be found necessary for the general government to interfere * * *. In MacDougall v. Green, 335 U.S. 281, 69 S.Ct. 648, 96 L.Ed. Foreign relations: There are sweeping statements to the effect that all questions touching foreign relations are political questions.31 Not only does resolution of such issues frequently turn on standards that defy judicial application, or involve the exercise of a discretion demonstrably committed to the executive or legislature;32 but many such questions uniquely demand single-voiced statement of the Government's views.33 Yet it is error to suppose that every case or controversy which touches foreign relations lies beyond judicial cognizance. VI, §§ 3, 4, 6. 335 U.S. at 284, 69 S.Ct. The Solicitor General of the United States, who has filed a brief amicus and argued in favor of reversal, asks the Court on this appeal to hold only that the District Court has 'jurisdiction' and may properly exercise it to entertain the plaintiffs' claims on the merits. In the instance of lack of jurisdiction the cause either does not 'arise under' the Federal Constitution, laws or treaties (or fall within one of the other enumerated categories of Art. This is not only a euphoric hope. 505; Coleman v. Miller, 307 U.S. 433, 437—446, 59 S.Ct. The express words of our holding were that 'Federal courts consistently refuse to exercise their equity powers in cases posing political issues arising from a state's geographical distribution of electoral strength among its political subdivisions.' 42 U.S.C. Cf. This may be, like so many questions of law, a matter of degree. 563. 375, 36 L.Ed. Of course this Court was there precluded by the adequate state ground, and in dismissing the appeal, 352 U.S. 920, 77 S.Ct. See, e.g., Pennsylvania v. West Virginia, 262 U.S. 553, 43 S.Ct. 938, 956 (a suit in which damages were awarded against election officials for not accepting the plaintiff's vote, 3 Ld.Raym. 1172, and state restriction upon the power of state constitutional amendment, Marshall v. Dye, 231 U.S. 250, 256—257, 34 S.Ct. 220, 75 L.Ed. This takes account of the restricted franchise as well as the effect of the localunit apportionment principle. Then it made clear that its dismissal reflected a view not of doubt that violation of constitutional rights was alleged, but of a court's impotence to correct that violation: 'With the plaintiffs' argument that the legislature of Tennessee is guilty of a clear violation of the state constitution and of the rights of the plaintiffs the Court entirely agrees. 749, 93 L.Ed. The question which Marshall reserved as 'unnecessary to decide,' ibid., was not the justiciability of the bill in this aspect, but the 'more doubtful' question whether that 'part of the bill which respects the land occupied by the Indians, and prays the aid of the court to protect their possession,' might be entertained. 567, 572, 11 L.Ed. 2, § 1, A.R.S. Chief Justice Taney, for the Court, began by saying that the answer was primarily a matter of state law that had been decided in favor of one faction by the state courts. Knox County, for example, is said to have a 'total representation' of 7.25. On March 26, 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the landmark case of Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 82 S. Ct. 691, 7 L. Ed. Within limits those qualifications may be fixed by state law. * * * While in form this is merely an act redefining metes and bounds, if the allegations are established, the inescapable human effect of this essay in geometry and geography is to despoil colored citizens, and only colored citizens, of their theretofore enjoyed voting rights. 10. 475, 18 L.Ed. 1129, 1132, 91 L.Ed. The use of floterial districts in our political system is not ordinarily based on the theory that the floterial representative is splintered among the counties of his district per relative population. Not only is that proposition refuted by history, as shown by my Brother FRANKFURTER, but it strikes deep into the heart of our federal system. Census.—An enumeration of the qualified voters, and an apportionment of the Representatives in the General Assembly, shall be made in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and within every subsequent term of ten years. 431, 77 L.Ed. Appellants appear as representatives of a class that is prejudiced as a class, in contradistinction to the polity in its entirety. The 'county aid funds' derived from a portion of a state gasoline privilege tax, for example, are distributed among the counties as follows: one-half equally among the ninety-five counties, one-quarter on the basis of area, one-quarter on the basis of population, to be used by county authorities in the building, repairing and improving of county roads and bridges. 47, p. 1219. (Emphasis added.) 596; Turman v. Duckworth, ibid. Finally, all other means failing, the District Court is invited by the plaintiffs, greatly daring, to order an election at large or redistrict the State itself or through a master. Johnston, 112 U.S. 201, 5 S.Ct. 597, 600, 67 L.Ed. Yet the right to decide is placed there, and not in the courts. The dominance of the civilian authority has been expressed from the beginning. Foster & Elam v. Neilson, 2 Pet. However, counties having two-thirds of the ratio required for a Representative are entitled to seat one member in the House, and there are certain geographical restrictions upon the formation of Senate districts. The influence of these converging considerations—the caution not to undertake decision where standards meet for judicial judgment are lacking, the reluctance to interfere with matters of state government in the absence of an unquestionable and effectively enforceable mandate, the unwillingness to make courts arbiters of the broad issues of political organization historically committed to other institutions and for whose adjustment the judicial process is illadapted—has been decisive of the settled line of cases, reaching back more than a century, which holds that Art. 1903), 160—162. 82, 87, 87 L.Ed. E.g., State of Arizona v. State of California, 283 U.S. 423, 455 & n. 7, 51 S.Ct. After Chief Justice Earl Warrant left the Supreme Court, he stated that the Baker v. Carr line of cases were the most important cases in his tenure as the Chief Justice. For present purposes these differences, although not unimportant as revealing fundamental divergences in representation theory, will be disregarded. Such inequalities, as the dissenters point out in attempting to support the present apportionment as rational, are explainable. Reports compiled in the several counties on this basis were submitted to the General Assembly by the Secretary of State and were used in the first apportionment. 1341. The Court split 6 to 2 in ruling that Baker's case was justiciable, producing, in addition to the opinion of the Court by Justice William J. Brennan, three concurring opinions and two dissenting opinions. Frankfurter believed that relief for legislative malapportionment had to be won through the political process. Moreover, 'the cessation of hostilities does not necessarily end the war power. 397, 88 L.Ed. The Chancellor denied all coercive relief, but entertained the suit for the purpose of rendering a declaratory judgment. VI, c. 66, as amended by the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act, 1958, 6 & 7 Eliz. But it is not necessary to decide that question in this case. Thus the Court, in cases involving discrimination against the Negro's right to vote, has recognized not only the action at law for damages,14 but, in appropriate circumstances, the extraordinary remedy of declaratory or injunctive relief.15 Schnell v. Davis, 336 U.S. 933, 69 S.Ct. To read with literalness the abstracted jurisdictional discussion in the McPherson opinion reveals the danger of conceptions of 'justiciability' derived from talk and not from the effective decision in a case. Often in these cases illumination was found in the federal structures established by, or the underlying presuppositions of, the Constitution. ), c. 5; and see, id., S.J.Res. baker v. carr spawned a number of other decisions as related to one man, one vote. 220, 222, 75 L.Ed. No one—except the dissenters advocating the HARLAN 'adjusted 'total representation" formula—contends that mathematical equality among voters is required by the Equal Protection Clause. 824, the District Court relying upon this Court's series of decisions beginning with Colegrove v. Green, 328 U.S. 549, 66 S.Ct. 223, 1 L.Ed.2d 157; Radford v. Gary, 352 U.S. 991, 77 S.Ct. ), '3—105. 28 to 30, for Senate apportionment based on numbers. Plaintiffs conclude that election of the State Legislature pursuant to the apportionment fixed by the 1901 Act violates the Tennessee Constitution and deprives them of due process of law and of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. Shortly before the recess, I had stated to the Court that it was the appellee's view that in this case of great importance . See, e.g., Griffith 116—117; Luce 364—367, 370; Merriam, American Political Ideas (1929), 244—245; Legislation, Apportionment of the New York State Senate, 31 St. John's L.Rev. 834, like Colegrove appears to be a refusal to exercise equity's powers; see the statement of the holding, quoted, supra, 369 U.S., p. 203, 82 S.Ct. In particular, we shall discover that the nonjusticiability of such claims has nothing to do with their touching upon matters of state governmental organization. 773, 776. It is interesting to note that state judges often rest their decisions on the ground that this Court has precluded adjudication of the federal claim. 397, 88 L.Ed. 685; Cox v. Peters, 342 U.S. 936, 72 S.Ct. 'The guaranty necessarily implies a duty on the part of the States themselves to provide such a government. 795, or 'frivolous,' Bell v. Hood, 327 U.S. 678, 683, 66 S.Ct. In evaluating the Court's determination not to inquire into the authority of the charter government, it must be remembered that, throughout the country, Dorr 'had received the sympathy of the Democratic press. For reasons given in Mr. Justice FRANKFURTER'S opinion, 369 U.S., pp. To date Congress has never undertaken such a task in any State. BAKER v. CARR GUY-URIEL E. CHARLES* Baker v. Carr is one of the Supreme Court's most important opinions, not least because its advent signaled the constitutionalization of democracy. Ex parte Dorr, 3 How. 1, 12 L.Ed. Fast Facts: Baker v. But in so doing one is caught up in the backlash of his own bull whip, for many counties have municipalities with a population exceeding 10,000, yet the same invidious discrimination is present. II, c. 26, § 2, and the English experience described in text at notes 50 to 61, supra. 1153; Alabama v. Texas, 347 U.S. 272, 74 S.Ct. BAKER v. CARR 369 U.S. 186 (1962)Chief Justice earl warren considered Baker v. Carr the most important case decided by the Warren Court. It would hardly embarrass the conduct of war were this Court to determine, in connection with private transactions between litigants, the date upon which war is to be deemed terminated. It did not adopt the principle of representation based on population, but merely disfranchised certain among the rotten borough and enfranchised most of the urban centers—still quite without regard to their relative numbers.40 In the wake of the Act there remained substantial electoral inequality: the boroughs of Cornwall were represented sixteen times as weightily, judged by population, as the county's eastern division; the average ratio of seats to population in ten agricultural counties was four and a half times that in ten manufacturing divisions; Honiton, with about three thousand inhabitants, was equally represented with Liverpool, which had four hundred thousand.41 In 1866 apportionment by population began to be advocated generally in the House, but was not made the basis of the redistribution of 1867, although the act of that year did apportion representation more evenly, gauged by the population standard.42 Population shifts increased the surviving inequalities; by 1884 the representation ratio in many small boroughs was more than twenty-two times that of Birmingham or Manchester, forty-to-one disparities could be found elsewhere, and, in sum, in the 1870's and 1880's, a fourth of the electorate returned two-thirds of the members of the House.43, The first systematic English attempt to distribute seats by population was the Redistribution Act of 1885.44 The statute still left ratios of inequality of as much as seven to one,45 which had increased to fifteen to one by 1912.46 In 1918 Parliament again responded to 'shockingly bad' conditions of inequality,47 and to partisan political inspiration,48 by redistribution.49 In 1944, redistribution was put on a periodic footing by the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act of that year,50 which committed a continuing primary responsibility for reapportioning the Commons to administrative agencies (Boundary Commissions for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, respectively).51 The Commissions, having regard to certain rules prescribed for their guidance, are to prepare at designated intervals reports for the Home Secretary's submission to Parliament, along with the draft of an Order in Council to give effect to the Commissions' recommendations. Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (Peden ed. Marbury V. Madison Case Analysis. 15, 60 L.Ed. 697, rehearing denied, 343 U.S. 921, 72 S.Ct. Contemporary apportionment. ), The other cases upon which my Brethren dwell are all distinguishable or inapposite. La.Const.1868, Tit. And this is the more so true because in every strand of this complicated, intricate web of values meet the contending forces of partisan politics.146 The practical significance of apportionment is that the next election results may differ because of it. 279, 283—288 (1959). The Court accordingly remanded the case to the district court for further action. 364, 370 (1952). 968, 84 L.Ed. He said: 'There is (an alternative to constitutional decision) in this case. For the sequel see Application of Lamb, 67 N.J.Super. 656. 6-2 for Baker. When challenges to state action respecting matters of 'the administration of the affairs of the State and the officers through whom they are conducted'55 have rested on claims of constitutional deprivation which are amenable to judicial correction, this Court has acted upon its view of the merits of the claim. Charles S. Rhyne: Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the Court. The 1950 rather than the 1960 census of voting population is used to avoid the charge that use of 1960 tabulations might not have allowed sufficient time for the State to act. The subject was fully considered in Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Oregon, 223 U.S. 118, 32 S.Ct. This distinction explains the decisions in Smiley v. Holm, 285 U.S. 355, 52 S.Ct. 482, 492—493, 31 L.Ed. In this regard the appellants have proposed a plan based on the rationale of state-wide equal representation. 235, 236, n. 6. ET with the story of Baker v. Carr.. On Tuesday, December 8, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in one of the most controversial cases this term, Evenwel v.Abbott.The Court will be tasked with determining the . When the Minnesota Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal of a suit to enjoin the Secretary of State of Minnesota from acting under Minnesota redistricting legislation, we reviewed the constitutional merits of the legislation and reversed the State Supreme Court. On the other hand, even in private litigation which directly implicates no feature of separation of powers, lack of judicially discoverable standards and the drive for even-handed application may impel reference to the political departments' determination of dates of hostilities' beginning and ending. Frankfurter, joined by Justice John Marshall Harlan II, dissented vigorously and at length, arguing that the Court had cast aside history and judicial restraint, and violated the separation of powers between legislatures and Courts. But cf. It is suggested that the districting is not unconstitutional since it was established by a statute that was constitutional when passed some 60 years ago. In The Pocket Veto Case, 279 U.S. 655, 49 S.Ct. Found inside... Warren deemed Baker v. Carr and the subsequent apportionment decisions down through Reynolds to be the most consequential of his tenure as chief justice ... While I join the opinion of the Court and, like the Court, do not reach the merits, a word of explanation is necessary.1 I put to one side the problems of 'political' questions involving the distribution of power between this Court, the Congress, and the Chief Executive. Author William L. Tabac describes the extraordinary legal proceeding with the twists and turns of a modern television drama and the fall of a prominent attorney. Baker v. Carr. 3, the District Court dismissed for want of jurisdiction, which had been invoked under 28 U.S.C. The case arose out of the Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island in 1841—1842. Finally, the Georgia county-unit-system cases, such as South v. Peters, 339 U.S. 276, 70 S.Ct. Functionality and information are in compliance with guidelines established by the American Association for State and Local History for online state and regional encyclopedias. 2d 663 (1962), that state congressional districts of unequal size were unconstitutional. 8, 28 L.Ed. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900, Population (Part 1) 39 (1901); (Part 2) 202 (1902). Iowa Const.1857, Art. It initially acted wisely . 3. By disregarding the wide variety of permissible legislative considerations that may enter into a state electoral apportionment by Brother CLARK has turned a highly complex process into an elementary arithmetical puzzle. And it is far better that those persons should be without the protection of the ordinary laws of the land who disregard them in an emergency, and should look to a grateful country for indemnity and pardon, than to allow, beforehand, the whole frame of jurisprudence to be overturned, and every thing placed at the mercy of the bayonet. At the outset, it cannot be denied that the apportionment rules explicitly set out in the Tennessee Constitution are rational. 725; and see 2 Warren, The Supreme Court in United States History (Rev. These involved foreign affairs and conflicts among the three branches of government rather than federalism issues. American Well Works Co. v. Layne & Bowler Co. Oneida Indian Nation of New York v. County of Oneida, Mt. 717; United States v. Saylor, 322 U.S. 385, 64 S.Ct. 537; Lamar v. Browne, 92 U.S. 187, 193, 23 L.Ed. § 1343(3): 'The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action authorized by law18 to be commenced by any person * * * (t)o redress the deprivation, under color of any State law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom or usage, of any right, privilege or immunity secured by the Constitution of the United States * * *. Me.Const.1819, Art. III, §§ 4, 5 (and untaxed persons of color); some excluded untaxed Indians and military personnel, e.g., Neb.Const.1866—1867, Art. 834 (1950), reflect the viewpoint of MacDougall, i.e., to refrain from intervening where there is some rational policy behind the State's system.4. And contrary to the suggestion of my Brother DOUGLAS, the Court most assuredly does not decide the question, 'may a State weight the vote of one county or one district more heavily than it weights the vote in another?' 854, 34 L.Ed. Ga.Const.1868, Art. The basis for the suit is not a private wrong, but a wrong suffered by Illinois as a polity.' Found inside – Page 24It was announced on March 26, 1962, by Mr. Justice Frankfurter in his dissenting opinion in the case of Baker v. Carr — and this is the last quotation, ... Found inside – Page 114... the United States Supreme Court , in the landmark case of Baker v . Carr . ... Dissenting , Mr. Justice Frankfurter said that the Court reversed " a ... More particularly, the question is the extent to which a State may weight one person's vote more heavily than it does another's. 366, 372, 15 L.Ed. The General Assembly's call for a 1953 Constitutional Convention originally contained a provision 'relating to the appointment (sic) of representatives and senators' but this was excised. Dyer v. Kazuhisa Abe, 138 F.Supp. 759. Acts of 1870 (2d Sess. Baker v. Carr Randal Rust 2018-03-01T19:58:10+00:00. It meanwhile provided for the calling of its own convention, which drafted a constitution that went peacefully into effect in 1843.25. See, e.g., United States v. Palmer, 3 Wheat. Since Fletcher v. Peck, 6 Cranch 87, 3 L.Ed. at 5; cf. 865. Although the statute under attack was upheld, it is clear that the Court based its decision upon the determination that the statute represented a rational state policy. Ibid. See Luther v. Borden, supra. 1090. IV, s 4, of a republican form of government. See Madison, in I Farrand, op. 20, 37—38 (1942). McGowan v. Maryland, 366 U.S. 420, 426, 81 S.Ct. )', '3—103. Race, color, or previous condition of servitude is an impermissible standard by reason of the Fifteenth Amendment, and that alone is sufficient to explain Gomillion v. Lightfoot, 364 U.S. 339, 81 S.Ct. 512; Williams v. Suffolk Ins. See note 50, supra. Kentucky v. Dennison, 24 How. See Art. 734—736. U.S.Const. 2, of the Constitution left the mode of choosing electors in the absolute discretion of the States. The Census reported 259,016 male citizens 21 and upward in Tennessee. The Court has since refused to resort to the Guaranty Clause—which alone had been invoked for the purpose—as the source of a constitutional standard for invalidating state action. It would be ingenuous not to see, or consciously blind to deny, that the real battle over the initiative and referendum, or over a delegation of power to local rather than state-wide authority, is the battle between forces whose influence is disparate among the various organs of government to whom power may be given. Nebraska's unicameral legislature is included in this count. The District Court's, 167 F.Supp. Indeed, in the present House of Representatives, for example, Michigan's congressional districts are far less representative of the numbers of inhabitants, according to the 1960 census, than are Louisiana's. Why do you think Chief Justice Warren called the Baker decision the most important of his court? The principles set out in the Tennessee Constitution are just some of those that were deemed significant. 497. 1, 77 L.Ed. at 1208. at 1199. Both opinions joining in the result in Colegrove v. Green agreed that considerations were controlling which dictated denial of jurisdiction though not in the strict sense of want of power. Ct. 691, 754 (1962). Unless judges, the judges of this Court, are to make their private views of political wisdom the measure of the Constitution—views which in all honesty cannot but give the appearance, if not reflect the reality, of involvement with the business of partisan politics so inescapably a part of apportionment controversies—the Fourteenth Amendment, 'itself a historical product,' Jackman v. Rosenbaum Co., 260 U.S. 22, 31, 43 S.Ct. 596. Such doubt would have been inconsistent with the professed willingness to turn the decision on either the majority or concurring views in Wood v. Broom, supra. See especially Lane v. Wilson, 307 U.S. 268, 272—273, 59 S.Ct. III, Legislative Department, § 3; Art. (Italics added.) 1961), at 382. Indeed, even the 'political question' point in Mr. Justice PRANKFURTER'S opinion was no more than an alternative ground.1 Moreover, the appellants did not present an equal protection argument.2 While it has served as a Mother Hubbard to most of the subsequent cases, I feel it was in that respect ill cast and for all of these reasons put it to one side.3 Likewise, I do not consider the Guaranty Clause cases based on Art. 11, § 1; C.Supp.1950, § 146.)'. There are allegations invoking the Due Process Clause but from the argument and the exhibits it appears that the Due Process Clause argument is directed at certain tax statutes. text following, on MacDougall v. Green. Nixon v. Herndon, 273 U.S. 536, 540, 47 S.Ct. United States Reports Case Number: 369 U.S. 186. 685, wherein the Court refused to consider whether a workmen's compensation act violated the Guaranty Clause but considered at length, and rejected, due process and equal protection arguments advanced against it; and O'Neill v. Leamer, 239 U.S. 244, 36 S.Ct. Between 1901 and 1961, Tennessee has experienced substantial growth and redistribution of her population. That was not the only occasion on which this Court indicated that lack of criteria does not obliterate the Guaranty's extreme limits: 'The guaranty is of a republican form of government. 162, was decided many years ago, it has repeatedly been pointed out that it is not the business of the federal courts to inquire into the personal motives of legislators. at 59 et seq. 730, these recitative allegations do not affect the nature of the controversy which appellants' complaints present. Unquestionably the case lay at the vortex of most fiery political embroilment. at 40. In my view, that analysis is defective not only because the 'total representation' formula set out in footnote 7 of the opinion (369 U.S., p. 255, 82 S.Ct., pp. Tenn.Constitutional Convention of 1959, The Journal and Debates, 35, 278. Our cases in this field seem invariably to show a discriminating analysis of the particular question posed, in terms of the history of its management by the political branches, of its susceptibility to judicial handling in the light of its nature and posture in the specific case, and of the possible consequences of judicial action. It is not to be presumed that the Legislature will refuse to take such action as is necessary to comply with its duty under the State Constitution. The First Reconstruction Act opened: 'Whereas no legal State governments * * * now exists (sic) in the rebel States of * * * Georgia (and) Mississippi * * *; and whereas it is necessary that peace and good order should be enforced in said States until loyal and republican State governments can be legally established: * * *.' 450; Marshall v. Dye, 231 U.S. 250, 34 S.Ct. Hart v. B. F. Keith Vaudeville Exchange, 262 U.S. 271, 274, 43 S.Ct. See Art. Gomillion v. Lightfoot, 364 U.S. 339, 81 S.Ct. 125, 5 L.Ed.2d 110. §§ 1167, 1220 (1896; Supp. What then is the basis for the claim made in this case that the distribution of state senators and representatives is the product of capriciousness or of some constitutionally prohibited policy? § 1971(c), amending R.S. It is clear that appellants' federal constitutional claims rest exclusively on alleged violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. 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