The State of Georgia v. The National Democratic Party

Appellants here urge that the constitutional principles enunciated in the Supreme Court’s reapportionment cases, beginning with Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 82 S.Ct. 691, 7 L.Ed.2d 663 (1962) and extending through the cases decided during the October, 1970 Term, 1 should be projected by this court into the arena of national party politics. It is argued that the Court’s precedents over the last decade compel the conclusion that the delegate-allocation formulas, utilized by both of the major national political parties to determine the quantum of representation of the various state parties at…