Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Mighty Platonic Guardians -- 1 The Supreme Court of Political Equality: What are Political Equality Cases? -- 2 Judicial Unmanageability and Political Equality: A Misplaced Focus on "Judicially Manageable" Standards -- 3 Protecting the Core of Political Equality: Core versus Contested Equality Principles -- 4 Deferring to Political Branches on Contested Equality Claims: Who Decides the Validity of Contested Political Equality Measures and Why? -- 5 Equality, Not Structure: The End of Individual Rights? -- Conclusion: Political Equality and a Minimalist Court -- Appendix 1: Twentieth-Century Election Law Cases Decided by the Supreme Court in a Written Opinion -- Appendix 2: Justice Goldberg's Proposed Dissent to a Per Curiam Summary Affirmance in Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elect -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.