Kopald v. Carr

This court is called upon to rule on a challenge to the most recent statutory reapportionment of the General Assembly of Tenessee. It is asserted that this legislation violates the “one-man, one-vote” Constitutional mandate. See e. g. Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 82 S. Ct. 691, 7 L.Ed.2d 663 (1962).

Each of the challenged statutes 1 includes a principal plan, and an alternative plan to be effective in the event that the principal plan is held to be unconstitutional. Defendants concede that both principal plans are unconstitutional. They urge that the alternative plans, corrected for obvious…