- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Wesberry v. Sanders (1964)
- Creator:
- Coenen, Dan T., 1952-
- Date of Original:
- 2004-10-04
- Subject:
- Judgments--United States
Sanders, Carl Edward, 1925- - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Wesberry v. Sanders (1964). In its 1964 ruling in Wesberry v. Sanders--a suit pursued by a group of Fulton County voters against Georgia officials, including Governor Carl Sanders--the U.S. Supreme Court built on its previous ruling in Gray v. Sanders (1963) to hold that all federal congressional districts within each state had to be made up of a roughly equal number of voters. In so ruling, the Court radically altered how state legislatures would thereafter draw congressional districts, which before Wesberry often reflected long-established groupings of counties that ignored intervening urbanization and other major shifts in population.
GSE identifier: SS8H11 - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/wesberry-v-sanders-1964/
- Language:
- eng
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- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: "Wesberry v. Sanders (1964)," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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