<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:coverage>United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018</dc:coverage><dc:creator>Coenen, Dan T., 1952-</dc:creator><dc:date>2004-10-04</dc:date><dc:description>Encyclopedia article about the case of Gray v. Sanders (1963). Chief Justice Earl Warren once said that the most important judicial pronouncements of his tenure were not the momentous school-desegregation decisions, but the U.S. Supreme Court's rulings that compelled states throughout the nation to reconfigure their electoral processes according to the principle of "one person, one vote." In Baker v. Carr (1962), a seminal procedural ruling out of Tennessee, the Supreme Court held that reapportionment challenges could be brought in federal court under the "equal protection" clause, despite earlier suggestions that cases of this kind were "nonjusticiable."</dc:description><dc:description>GSE identifier: SS8H11</dc:description><dc:format>text/html</dc:format><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:relation>Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.</dc:relation><dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</dc:rights><dc:source>Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.</dc:source><dc:subject>Judgments--United States</dc:subject><dc:title>Gray v. Sanders (1963)</dc:title><dc:type>Text</dc:type></oai_dc:dc>