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APPORTIONMENT BILL

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 227 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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APPORTIONMENT See also:BILL , an See also:act passed by the See also:Congress of the See also:United States after each decennial See also:census to determine the number of members which each See also:state shall send to the See also:House of Representatives. The ratio of See also:representation fixed by the See also:original constitution was 1 to 30,000 of the See also:free See also:population, and the number of the members of the first House was 65. As the House would, at this ratio, have become unmanageably large, the ratio, which is first settled by Congress before -See also:APPREHENSION 227 apportionment, has been raised after each census, as will be seen from the accompanying table. The same See also:term is applied to the acts passed by the state legislatures for correcting and redistributing the representation of the counties. Such acts are usually ,passed at decennial intervals, more often after the federal census, but the See also:dates may vary in different states. The state representatives are usually apportioned among the several counties according to population and not by See also:geographical position. The electoral districts so formed are expected to be equal in proportion to the number of inhabitants; but this method has led to much abuse in the past, through the making of unequal districts for See also:partisan purposes.

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