TAILIEUCHUNG - Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 10 P34

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 10 P34 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 318 WARREN EARL In civilized life law FLOATS IN A SEA OF ethics. Each is INDISPENSABLE TO civilization. Without law we SHOULD BE AT THE MERCY OF THE LEAST scrupulous WITHOUT ETHICS LAW COULD NOT EXIST. Earl Warren Warren himself believed that his most important contribution to the law came in the area of legislative reapportionment. Most state legislatures had not apportioned their seats since the early 1900s. The allocation of seats was based on geographic areas and favored rural districts with small populations over growing urban and suburban areas. Political change was almost impossible because rural-dominated legislatures prevented reapportionment. Until the 1960s the Supreme Court had refused to intervene concluding that cases challenging apportionment were political questions beyond the Court s jurisdiction. In BAKER v. CARR 369 . 186 82 S. Ct. 691 7 L. Ed. 2d 663 1962 the Court held that it did have jurisdiction and two years later in Reynolds v. sims 377 . 533 84 S. Ct. 1362 12 L. Ed. 2d 506 1964 Warren wrote the opinion that has come to be known as the one person one vote decision. Reynolds and a series of cases that followed forced state legislatures to be apportioned equally on the basis of population rather than geographic areas. Warren noted that citizens not history or economic interests cast votes and that legislators represent people not acres or trees. Reapportionment based on population resulted in a shift of political power away from sparsely populated rural areas to metropolitan areas. Warren also reshaped . criminal procedure in the process drawing protest from law enforcement officials and those citizens who believed the Court was tipping the balance in favor of criminals. Many cases of this era limited police searches and seizures and the use of confessions and extended the right to counsel to poor persons accused of felonies. In GIDEON V. WAINWRIGHT 372 . 335 83 S. Ct. 792 9 L. Ed. 2d 799 1963 the Court held that the sixth .

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