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Beer Vs. United States

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Mar 30, 1976

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  1. South Carolina Vs. Katzenbach US Supreme Court · Mar 07, 1966
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  2. Burns Vs. Richardson US Supreme Court · Apr 25, 1966
  3. Perkins Vs. Matthews US Supreme Court · Jan 14, 1971
  4. Gomillion Vs. Lightfoot US Supreme Court · Nov 14, 1960
  5. Reynolds Vs. Sims US Supreme Court · Jun 15, 1964
  6. Beer v. United
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  7. States - 425 U.S. 130 (1976) U.S. Supreme Court Beer v. United
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  8. States, 425 U.S. 130 (1976) Beer v. United
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  9. and the Attorney General has not objected to it. The constitutionality of this procedure was upheld in South Carolina v. Katzenbach
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  10. is applicable when a State or political subdivision adopts a legislative reapportionment plan. Allen v. State
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  11. Georgia v. United
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  12. right to be represented in legislative bodies in proportion to their number in the general population. See Whitcomb v. Chavis
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  13. In reaching this conclusion, we do not decide the question reserved in Georgia v. United
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  14. Last Term, in City of Richmond v. United
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  15. Cf. MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN's dissenting opinion in City of Richmond v. United
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  16. the population, but also a majority of the registered voters in two of the Plan II districts, are Negroes. See Taylor v. McKeithen
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  17. in this Court holding a legislative apportionment or reapportionment violative of the Fifteenth Amendment. Cf. Wright v. Rockefeller
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  18. U. S. 52 . The case closest to so holding is Gomillion v. Lightfoot
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  19. standard are not relevant here. See Reynolds v. Sims
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  20. apportionments violated the Fourteenth Amendment rights of identifiable racial or ethnic minorities. See Fortson v. Dorsey
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  21. was aimed at this end, among others, and should be so construed and applied. See City of Richmond v. United
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  22. Allen v. State
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  23. Board of Elections, 393 U. S. 544 , 393 U. S. 567 , 566 (1969). See also Georgia v. United
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  24. Congress intended to adopt the concept of voting articulated in Reynolds v. Sims
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  25. U.S. at 400 U. S. 390 , quoting Allen v. State
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  26. Board of Elections, 393 U.S. at 393 U. S. 588 (opinion of Harlan, J.). See also Georgia v. United
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  27. Page 425 U. S. 157 than potential ( i.e., proportional) power, not to a reduction of existing power. White v. Regester
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  28. supra at 412 U. S. 765 -766. See also Whitcomb v. Chavis
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  29. until recently, had been employed with remarkable success to keep Negroes from voting in the State. See Louisiana v. United
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  30. We upheld the validity of the shifted burden of proof in South Carolina v. Katzenbach
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  31. the Court has seemed to adopt each of these approaches. In the two Fifteenth Amendment redistricting cases, Wright v. Rockefeller
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  32. U. S. 52 (1964), and Gomillion v. Lightfoot
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  33. U.S. at 364 U. S. 341 . See also 376 U.S. at 376 U. S. 73 -74 (Goldberg, J., dissenting). McGowan v. Maryland
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  34. imputing an improper purpose, but that legislation is invalidated only for having such a purpose. And City of Richmond v. United
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  35. may not be examined at all -- and that a statute may be invalidated only if it has an unconstitutional effect. Palmer v. Thompson
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  36. U. S. 217 , 403 U. S. 224 -225 (1971), and United States v. O'Brien
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  37. an impermissible purpose or an impermissible effect may alone be sufficient to invalidate a law. Board of Education v. Allen
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  38. Abington School District v. Schempp
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  39. of the Fourteenth Amendment gives Congress the power to expand the substantive reach of that Amendment. Katzenbach v. Morgan
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  40. of a legislative enactment is just too ambiguous a task to be the sole tool of constitutional analysis. See Palmer v. Thompson
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  41. other cases, redistricting will have been constitutionally compelled by our one-person, one-vote decisions. Reynolds v. Sims
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  42. U.S. Supreme Court Beer v. United
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  43. See Whitcomb v. Chavis
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  44. City of Richmond v. United
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  45. Negroes. See Taylor v. McKeithen
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  46. of the Fifteenth Amendment. Cf. Wright v. Rockefeller
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  47. See Reynolds v. Sims
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  48. See Fortson v. Dorsey
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  49. See City of Richmond v. United
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  50. the State. See Louisiana v. United
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