What does "one-person, one-vote"ruling mean?

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27 January, 02:37

What does "one-person, one-vote"ruling mean?

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Georgia Fowler · Answer 1

The One-Person One-Vote Rule refers to the rule that one person's voting power ought to be roughly equivalent to another person's within the same state. The rule comes up in the context of Equal Protection. The most relevant Supreme Court case is Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U. S. 533 (1964).