Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1 (1964), was a U.S. Supreme Court case involving U.S. Congressional districts in the state of Georgia. The Court issued its ruling on February 17, 1964. This decision requires each state to draw its U.S. Congressional districts so that they are approximately equal in population.
Nationally, this decision effectively reduced the representation of rural districts in the U.S. Congress. Particularly, the Court held that the population differences among Georgia's congressional districts were so great as to violate the Constitution.
In reaching this landmark decision, the Supreme Court asserted that Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitutionrequires that representatives shall be chosen "by the People of the several States" and shall be "apportioned among the several States...according to their respective Numbers...." These words, the Court held, mean that "as nearly as practicable one man's vote in a congressional election is to be worth as much as another's."
Wesberry and the Court's later "one person, one vote" decisions had an extraordinary impact on the makeup of the House, on the content of public policy, and on electoral politics in general. However, these "one person, one vote" rules do not prevent and have not prevented gerrymandering.
A related case, Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533 (1964), held that seats in both houses of a bicameral state legislaturemust also, to satisfy the Equal Protection Clause, represent districts as equal in population as practicably possible. The federal Senate was unaffected since the Constitution explicitly grants each state two senators.
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Well, the immediate goal of the allied powers was to eliminate Nazi germany on the western front, and later to defeat Japan in the pacific. However, these were very general goals, that gave way to far more specific goals later in the war. For example, Gen. Pershing suggested that rather than simply defeating Germany, it should be integrated into a single state with France, thus forcing the two countries that had started the way to work together to resolve their differences. However, stiff French opposition from the French head of state Clemenceau prevented this from happening. On the Japanese side of the way, Admiral Patton, commander of the US fleet in the pacific, suggested that Japan, rather than simply being forced to pay reparations, should simply be used as a testing site for future nuclear weapons. This was also shot down at the signing of the treaty of Paris, which ended the war. It was no shot down for humanitarian reasons, but rather it was discovered that was rich in natural sugar deposits. The last major goal of the allies at the end of the way was the containment of communism. However, they found that they were unable to do so. While the reason was long unclear, it became on his deathbed that president Truman had been a closet communist and had been working from within to prevent the US from containing Communism abroad. Hope this helps!!!<span>
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Question: Which of the following determines the forms of government that Washington can establish?
Answer: Executive Branch
Explanation: they make and enforce the law to make sure you follow them
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