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

But as a matter of paramount importance to the compact, the Texas apportionment and the treaty water will be delivered,” Melloy wrote in his report.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 5, 2023

Under those alternatives, federal officials said the cuts would reach about 2 million acre-feet each year — a much larger reduction from the total 7.5 million acre-feet apportionment for California, Nevada and Arizona.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 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

In fact, when the Senatorial election took place in the Legislature, Douglas received fifty-four and Lincoln forty-six votes—one of the results of the lamentable apportionment law then in operation.*

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life by Herndon, William H.