Annenberg Foundation.
Language
English
Description
In a series of landmark decisions in the 1960s, the Supreme Court established the principle of one person, one vote. In this documentary, Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Stephe nBreyer and other experts discuss the political environment that generated the decisions in Baker v. Carr and Reynolds v. Sims and the Court's application of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in deciding reapportionment cases.