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Gray Vs. Sanders
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- Mar 18, 1963
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U.S. 368 (1963) U.S. Supreme Court Gray v. SandersSearch
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U.S. 368 (1963) Gray v. SandersSearch
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United States v. GeorgiaSearch
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Ibid. The District Court held that, as a result of Baker v. CarrSearch
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state action within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. Judge Sibley, writing for the court in Chapman v. KingSearch
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this preliminary phase of the election process Page 372 U. S. 375 makes it state action. See United States v. ClassicSearch
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U. S. 649 . We also agree that appellee, like any person whose right to vote is impaired ( Smith v. AllwrightSearch
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merits, we take a different view of the nature of the problem than did the District Court. This case, unlike Baker v. CarrSearch
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State Legislature or for the Federal House of Representatives. Nor does it include the related problems of Gomillion v. LightfootSearch
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legislature. And we intimate no opinion on the constitutional phases of that problem beyond what we said in Baker v. CarrSearch
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As we held in Lassiter v. NorthamptonSearch
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more heavily than the Negro vote, none could successfully contend that that discrimination was allowable. See Terry v. AdamsSearch
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voter's vote is entitled to be counted once. It must be correctly counted and reported. As stated in United States v. MosleySearch
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be recognized in any preliminary election that in fact determines the true weight a vote will have. See United States v. ClassicSearch
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equality in the voting booth contained in the Fifteenth Amendment extends to all phases of state elections, see Terry v. AdamsSearch
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Minors, felons, and other classes may be excluded. See Page 372 U. S. 381 Lassiter v. NorthamptonSearch
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specified, we see no constitutional way by which equality of voting power may be evaded. As we stated in Gomillion v. LightfootSearch
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Ashby v. WhiteSearch
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the basic ground rules implementing Baker v. CarrSearch
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a given constituency, there can be room for but a single constitutional rule -- one voter, one vote. United States v. ClassicSearch
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U. S. 299 . MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, dissenting. When Baker v. CarrSearch
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was argued at the last Term, we were assured that if this Court would only remove the roadblocks of Colegrove v. GreenSearch
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four occasions on which Georgia's County Unit System has previously been unsuccessfully challenged in this Court. Cook v. FortsonSearch
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decided with Turman v. DuckworthSearch
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Cox v. PetersSearch
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and Hartsfield v. SloanSearch
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but, in light of the judicial history recounted by Mr. Justice Frankfurter in his dissenting opinion in Baker v. CarrSearch
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This estimate of the earlier situation is highlighted by the dissenting opinion of JUSTICES BLACK and DOUGLAS in South v. PetersSearch
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also reflected these same views in noting their dissents in the Cox and Hartsfield cases. See also Cook v. FortsonSearch
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s holding surely flies in the face of history. For, as impressively shown by the opinion of Frankfurter, J., in Baker v. CarrSearch
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some 15 years ago, rejected, in a comparable situation, the notion of political equality now pronounced. In MacDougall v. GreenSearch
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to an impairment of the political franchise by ballot box stuffing or other criminal activity, e.g., United States v. MosleySearch
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U. S. 385 , or to the disenfranchisement of qualified voters on purely racial grounds, Gomillion v. LightfootSearch
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Louisville & Nashville R. Co. v. BarberSearch
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the large counties is the urban-rural problem, so familiar in the American political scene. In my dissent in Baker v. CarrSearch
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scheme. It was, of course, imponderables like these that lay at the root of the Court's steadfast pre- Baker v. CarrSearch
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no longer escape the necessity of coming to grips with the thorny problems it so studiously strove to avoid in Baker v. CarrSearch
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