December 8, 2015
HARD TO DECIDE WHICH BIT IS FUNNIER HERE...:
The New Attack on 'One Person, One Vote' : It's been settled law for five decades--but now the Supreme Court might shoot it down. (Ari Berman, NOVEMBER 25, 2015, The Nation)
The Supreme Court ended this perversion of democracy in a series of landmark cases in the 1960s, most notably Baker v. Carr and Reynolds v. Sims, ruling that legislative districts had to be roughly equal in population. "The conception of political equality from the Declaration of Independence, to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, to the Fifteenth, Seventeenth, and Nineteenth Amendments can mean only one thing--one person, one vote," wrote Justice William Douglas.
...the admission implicit in "law for five decades" that the law was otherwise for fourteen decades or Justice Douglas's necessary failure to cite the actual Constitution, which, of course, explicitly rejects one man, one vote in creating a Senate and then an Electoral College system.
Posted by Orrin Judd at December 8, 2015 7:27 PM
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