Editing Wesberry v. Sanders (section)

==Decision==
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--[[Supreme Court Justice|Justice]] [[Hugo Black]] on [[Suffrage|the right to vote]] as the foundation of [[democracy]] in ''Wesberry v. Sanders'' (1964).<ref>{{cite web |title=''Wesberry v. Sanders'', 376 U.S. 1 (1964), at 17-18. |url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/376/1/ |publisher=Justia US Supreme Court Center |access-date=January 5, 2021 |date=February 17, 1964}}</ref>
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Writing for the Court majority in ''Wesberry'', [[Hugo Black|Justice Black]] argued that a reading of the debates of the Constitutional Convention demonstrated conclusively that the Framers had meant, in using the phrase “by the People,” to guarantee equality of representation in the election of Members of the House of Representatives.<ref name="onecle1">[http://law.onecle.com/constitution/article-1/05-congressional-districting.html Congressional Districting – United States Constitution<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>