The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Consider their most recent exploits in apportionment. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo Jaquith - State races just aren’t competitive.] Reference
Being direct, and therefore to be laid by apportionment, is there any real difficulty in doing so?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Health Care Mandate a Direct Tax?] Reference
Reforming Senate apportionment is impossible until the current constitution is scrapped by our Chinese overlords. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Ungovernable America] Reference
Since there are no longer any slaves in the United States, apportionment is achieved if a tax applies to all free persons. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Health Care Mandate a Direct Tax?] Reference
Mr. Daniel acknowledged that rationing on its lines - what industry calls apportionment. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
This refers to the purported 87 percent white, 13 percent black land apportionment, which is incorrect, "the TAU said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
"apportionment" by allowing income to be taxed from whatever source derived. From Wordnik.com. [California Progress Report] Reference
At the last apportionment, the House of Representatives consisted of. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
Secretary of the Interior from making the decennial apportionment of. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
The apportionment seems to have had the characteristics of ribbon cake. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth] Reference
The difficulty lies in the exact apportionment of the reducing solution. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
If there was no interest to oppress, there was no need of an apportionment. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Neither does blindness, any more than death, admit of degree or apportionment. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
How can they when the apportionment is so perverse, when everything is topsy-turvy?. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
The apportionment of representation on the basis of the new census has been made by the. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Discussing whether the apportionment should be according to taxation or numbers, Wilson considered. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
By the next apportionment there will be 233 members, of whom 144 will be from the Free States, and. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
There are thirty States, and under the existing apportionment of Representatives there are 230 Members in the House of. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
People in prison generally lose the right to vote, but their bodies still count for purposes of political apportionment. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Lotke: Prisoners of the Census in New York: Democracy on the March!] Reference
The foundation won a landmark Supreme Court case in 1999 that banned statistical sampling for congressional apportionment purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Anti-Census Sentiment] Reference
For entries without a specified campus, we apportioned the remaining undetermined entries using a new apportionment method this year. From Wordnik.com. [Methodology] Reference
This is, however, clearly impracticable; every one, would discover unlimited needs, and no one would be fit to make the apportionment. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
Montreal and Lachine. £3,000 was appropriated towards the apportionment of lands to the militia who had served during the war; and Pierre. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
The Committee of Detail finally brought forward for the apportionment of direct taxes and representation in the House a plan for taking the. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
In the aforesaid distribution Manila City ranks as a municipality and a province, and receives apportionment under this law on the basis of. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The following propositions from New Jersey moved by Patterson closely connected the apportionment of requisitions with that of representation. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
Houses should be elected upon the suffrage basis; and in 1862 and every ten years thereafter, a re-apportionment should be made on that basis. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference
As five slaves are to be counted as 3 free men in the apportionment of Representatives; such a clause wd. leave an encouragement to this traffic. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
Moreover, Virginia under the apportionment of 1841 lost five Representatives in the National House; South Carolina's number fell from nine to seven. From Wordnik.com. [Expansion and Conflict] Reference
Civil peace rests on an intricate apportionment of political power and economic wealth among the major nationalities, the Avars, Dargins, Laks and Kumyks. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Crisis In Putin's Russia] Reference
It is desirable that the amount in the pool should be divisible by three, so as to allow of its equal apportionment among the winners of the three tricks. From Wordnik.com. [Round Games with Cards A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice] Reference
The answer isn't that Americans prefer divided government, or that unfair apportionment has robbed the GOP, or that voters are more liberal on local issues. From Wordnik.com. [Politician, Heal Thyself] Reference
The deep indignation excited throughout the State by such manifest injustice resulted in a new apportionment which transferred one assemblyman from each of six. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
What we get is a good population count -- required by the Constitution for congressional apportionment -- and a useful snapshot of social and economic conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Complete This Form, Please] Reference
In the apportionment, or representation clause, the redemptioner and the apprentice counts each as a man, whereas five slaves are enumerated as only three free men. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
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