one man, one vote
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 397 U.S. 50 - Hadley v. Junior College District of Metropolitan Kansas City · 1970Most cited · 876 citing opinions
as a general rule, whenever a state or local government decides to select persons by popular election to perform governmental functions, the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that each qualified voter must be given an equal opportunity to participate in that election, and when members of an elected body are chosen from separate districts, each district must be established on a basis that will insure, as far as is practicable, that equal numbers of voters can vote for proportionally equal numbers of officials
How often courts cite the cases defining “one man, one vote”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “one man, one vote” — 1,580 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1967–1970
- ORIGINAL
Since the choice of members of the county school board did not involve an election and since none was required for these nonlegislative offices, the principle of 'one man, one vote' has no relevancy.