Lessons From CGR Redistricting

I’ve had “one person, one vote” (OK, “one MAN, one vote”) drummed into my head since the 4^th grade. Yet this didn’t apply to many legislative elections until the mid 1960s. Congressional seats, while allocated to states according to population, were distributed within the states many different ways. Only in a series of decisions handed down between 1962 and 1964 did the Supreme Court declare that Congressional and state legislative districts had to contain roughly the same number of residents, basing its decision on the “Equal Protection Clause” of the Constitution’s 14^th Amendment.
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