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64 Neb. L. Rev. 389 (1985)
Taking Voting Rights Seriously: Rediscovering the Fifteenth Amendment

handle is hein.journals/nebklr64 and id is 399 raw text is: Emma Coleman Jordan* Taking Voting Rights Seriously: Rediscovering The Fifteenth Amendment** TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction ............................................... 390 II. Tracing the Development of Fifteenth Amendment Theory ..................................................... 393 A. Early Efforts to End the Reign of Terror at the Ballot Box ............................................ 393 B. Origins of Judicial Intervention to Protect Black Voting Rights ......................................... 397 1. The Fifteenth Amendment Challenges of 1915 .... 398 2. The Two Fourteenth Amendment Cases .......... 400 3. New Grandfather Clauses, Vote Fraud, Understand and Explain Tests, and White Party Prim aries .......................................... 402 C. Gomillion v. Lightfoot: A Crossroads? ................ 406 III. The Penumbra of the Fourteenth Amendment: The One- Person, One-Vote Apportionment Cases .................. 408 A. The Concern for Judicial Manageability .............. 408 B. Mathematical Equality: A Substitute for Representation ........................................ 410 1. The Talisman of Mathematical Precision .......... 412 2. The Double Standard of Apportionment .......... 415 C. The Constitutional Dilution Suit ...................... 418 1. Setting Standards for Court Ordered Plans ....... 423 2. The Struggle Over Standards of Proof In Dilution Claim s ............................................. 425 IV. Racial Dilution Claims Under the Voting Rights Act ..... 431 V. The Future of the Fifteenth Amendment ................. 436 * Professor of Law, University of California, Davis. ** I thank my colleague Floyd F. Feeney and Dean Derrick Bell for helpful comments on an earlier draft; I also thank Katherine R. Poss, University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall, 1985, and flene Goldstein Block, University of California, Davis, King Hall, 1984, for their invaluable efforts as research assistants.

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