apportionment

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And, since the country’s founding, the U.S. has conducted a Census once a decade for the purposes of apportionment.

From Salon • Aug. 14, 2025

The successful challenge by Phoenix won’t change how many congressional seats Arizona got during the apportionment process, or the more detailed numbers used for redrawing political boundaries.

From Seattle Times • May 30, 2023

Arizona began starting to take its full apportionment of river water in the late 1990s, and Nevada in the early 2000s.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2023

In general, the apportionment of electoral districts this year appears to be the fairest in 40 years, as reported by the New York Times.

From Scientific American • Nov. 10, 2022

The rule of apportionment is of this nature: it is radically wrong; it cannot be supported by any solid reasoning.

From Slavery and the Constitution by Bowditch, William Ingersoll