USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Reynolds v. Sims established that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires both houses of state legislature to be apportioned based on population.

Detailed explanation-2: -In Reynolds v. Sims, the Court held that state legislative districts must be equal in population. Prior to the decision, urbanization had caused many rural districts to be overrepresented in several states. Above, African Americans march for equal voting rights.

Detailed explanation-3: -What was the Supreme Court’s ruling in the case of Reynolds v. Sims? It required that legislative districts be approximately equal in population size.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sanders decision, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that equality of voting-one person, one vote-means that “the weight and worth of the citizens’ votes as nearly as is practicable must be the same", and ruled that states must also draw federal congressional districts containing roughly equal represented populations.