Editing Tennessee General Assembly (section)

=== Layout of districts ===
The General Assembly districts of both houses are supposed to be reapportioned based on population as determined by the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Federal government of the United States|federal]] [[census]] on a decennial basis. This was not done between 1902 and 1962, resulting in the [[United States Supreme Court]] decision in ''[[Baker v. Carr]]'' (369 U.S. 186), which required this action to be taken. Afterwards, there were other lawsuits, including one which resulted in an order for the body to create a [[African American|black]]-[[Minority-majority district|majority district]] in [[West Tennessee]] for the House in the late 1990s.