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apportionment — I noun administration, allocation, allotment, allowance, assignment, assignment in proportion, consignment, disposition, distribution, division, division in proportion, doling out, issuance, just division, measuring out, meting out, partition,… … Law dictionary
apportionment — [ə pôr′shənmənt] n. 1. an apportioning or being apportioned 2. a proportional distribution or assignment, as of U.S. Representatives among the states, or of state legislators among counties, etc … English World dictionary
Apportionment (politics) — Part of the Politics series Elections Allotment (sortition) … Wikipedia
Apportionment paradox — An apportionment paradox exists when the rules for apportionment in a political system produce results which are unexpected or seem to violate common sense. To apportion is to divide into parts according to some rule, the rule typically being one … Wikipedia
apportionment — /aporshanmant/ The process by which legislative seats are distributed among units entitled to representation. Determination of the number of representatives which a State, county, or other subdivision may send to a legislative body. he U.S.… … Black's law dictionary
apportionment — /aporshanmant/ The process by which legislative seats are distributed among units entitled to representation. Determination of the number of representatives which a State, county, or other subdivision may send to a legislative body. he U.S.… … Black's law dictionary
Apportionment Act — The Apportionment Act was a proposed United States federal law that would have fixed the size of the United States House of Representatives based on the United States Census of 1790. The bill was vetoed by President George Washington on 5 April… … Wikipedia
Apportionment Bill — The Apportionment Bill is an act passed by the Congress of the United States after each decennial census to determine the number of members which each state shall send to the United States House of Representatives. The number of the members of… … Wikipedia
Apportionment — This article is about apportionment in law. See also apportionment (politics) The legal term apportionment (French apportionement; Med. Latin apportionamentum; derived from Latin portio , share) means distribution or allotment in proper shares.… … Wikipedia
Representatives, House of — ▪ United States government one of the two houses of the bicameral (bicameral system) United States Congress (Congress of the United States), established in 1789 by the Constitution of the United States (Constitution of the United States of… … Universalium
