Exam 8: Elections, Representation, and Voting Rights

Chisom v. Roemer involved a challenge to the system for electing judges to the ____________ supreme court.

In Gomilion v. Lightfoot (1960) the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional an extreme form of the ___________.

Under Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution, ___________.

In League of United Latin American Voters v. Perry (2006), the Supreme Court ________ a controversial Texas congressional reapportionment plan that strongly advantaged Republican incumbents.

In _____________, the Supreme Court struck down an at-large election scheme in Burke County, Georgia on the basis that there was discriminatory intent on the part of public officials.

In Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections (1966), the Supreme Court held that poll taxes in state elections violated the __________ Amendment.

The Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the Federal Constitution __________.

First enacted by ____________in 1890, the grandfather clause soon spread throughout southern and border states and typically required literacy tests for all voters whose ancestors had not been entitled to vote prior to 1866.

Which of the following procedural devices designed to prevent most African-Americans from voting was the first to be declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court?

Grovey v. Townsend, the 1935 decision in which the Supreme Court had upheld the so-called _______, was overruled in Smith v. Allwright (1944).

In __________________, the Supreme Court upheld an apportionment scheme for the Wyoming legislature based on county lines, even though the scheme had a population deviation of nearly 90 percent between the largest and the smallest districts.