• Wikisource has original text related to this article: Wesberry v. Sanders Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1 (1964), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case...
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  • redistricting. In 1964, the Supreme Court would hand down two cases, Wesberry v. Sanders and Reynolds v. Sims, which required the United States House of Representatives...
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  • chambers must be roughly equal in population. Along with Baker v. Carr (1962) and Wesberry v. Sanders (1964), it was part of a series of Warren Court cases that...
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    rights in his opinions in cases such as Gideon v. Wainwright, Engel v. Vitale, and Wesberry v. Sanders. Black's views were not uniformly liberal. During...
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    population increased in urban, industrialized areas. In the 1964 Wesberry v. Sanders decision, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that equality of voting—one...
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    Court's decisions on two previous landmark cases—Baker v. Carr (1962) and Wesberry v. Sanders (1964)—also played a fundamental role in establishing the...
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  • Retrieved 2021-04-20. Christen 2019, p. 98. "Baker v. Carr". Oyez. Retrieved 2019-09-24. "Wesberry v. Sanders". Oyez. Retrieved 2019-09-24. "One Person, One...
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    In a third case, Wesberry v. Sanders, the Court required states to draw congressional districts of equal population. In Reynolds v. Sims (1963), the...
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    Texas' original 1960 district map was thrown out as a result of Wesberry v. Sanders, the 16th was shrunk down to the city of El Paso (except a sliver...
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    Voting Rights Act of 1965. In addition, it followed the case of Wesberry v. Sanders, resulting in Texas's previous congressional map being tossed out...
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