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

These panels often resort to computer programs to find the fairest possible apportionment.

From Scientific American • Nov. 10, 2022

The particular business of the department pertaining to the increase of service and expedition of routes belonged under this apportionment to the Second Assistant Postmaster-General.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Ingersoll, Robert Green