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Apportionment

Apportionment

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  • Law Dictionaries.
  • Elections; Legislation; Representation.

    Congress of the United States; Voting.

    Congress, United States ; Connecticut Compromise ; Preferential Voting ; Primary, White ; Suffrage: Exclusion from the Suffrage.

    Census; Congress, U.S.; Gerrymandering

  • Further Reading

    Alker, Hayward R. JR.; and Russett, Bruce M. 1964 On Measuring Inequality. Behavioral Science 9:207-218.

    Butler, David 1955 The Redistribution of Seats. Public Administration 33:125-147.

    Canada, Parliament, House OF Commons 1958 British North America Act. Volume 2, pages 1088-1104 in Debates. Session 1. Ottawa (Canada).

    de Grazia, Alfred 1951 Public and Republic: Political Representation in America. New York: Knopf.

    Everett, Robinson O. (editor) 1962 The Electoral Process: Part II. Law and Contemporary Problems 27:327-433.

    Griffith, Elmer C. 1907 The Rise and Development of the Gerrymander. Chicago: Scott, Foresman.

    Kramer, Robert (editor) 1952 Legislative Reapportionment. Law and Contemporary Problems 17:253-469.

    Nagel, Stuart S. 1965 Simplified Bipartisan Computer Redistricting. Stanford Law Review 17:863-899.

    Peaslee, Amos Jenkins (editor) (1950) 1956 Constitutions of Nations. 3 vols., 2d ed. The Hague: Nijhoff.

    Schattschneider, E. E. et al. 1962 A Symposium on Baker v. Carr. Yale Law Journal 72:7-106.

    Schmeckebier, Laurence F. 1941 Congressional Apportionment. Institute for Government Research of the Brookings Institution, Studies in Administration, No. 40. Washington: The Institute.

    Silva, Ruth C. 1962a Apportionment in New York. Part 1: The Legal Aspects of Reapportionment and Redistricting; Baker v. Carr. Fordham Law Review 30: 581-595.

    Silva, Ruth C. 1962b Apportionment of the New York Assembly. Fordham Law Review 31:1-72.

    Silva, Ruth C. 1964 Compared Values of the Single-and the Multi-member Legislative District. Western Political Quarterly 17:504-516.

    Silva, Ruth C. 1964 Relation of Representation and the Party System to the Number of Seats Apportioned to a Legislative District. Western Political Quarterly 17:742-769.

    Weaver, James B.; and Hess, Sidney W. 1963 A Procedure for Nonpartisan Districting: Development of Computer Techniques. Yale Law Journal 73:288-308.

    More Further Reading

    Cain, Bruce E. The Reapportionment Puzzle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

    Eagles, Charles W. Democracy Delayed: Congressional Reapportionment and Urban-Rural Conflict in the 1920s. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990.

    Schwab, Larry M. The Impact of Congressional Reapportionment and Redistricting. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1988.

    Calvin B. T.Lee/a. g.

    Prewitt, Kenneth. 2000. The US Decennial Census: Political Questions, Scientific Answers. Population and Development Review 26 (1): 1-16.

    Rush, Mark E., and Richard Lee Engstrom. 2001. Fair and Effective Representation?: Debating Electoral Reform and Minority Rights. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

    Sweeting, Orville J. 1956. John Q. Tilson and the Reapportionment Act of 1929. Western Political Quarterly 9 (2): 434-453.

    U.S. Census Bureau. 2001. Computing Apportionment Homepage. https://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/apportionment/computing.html.

    U.S. General Accounting Office. 1998. Decennial Census: Overview of Historical Census Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. https://www.gao.gov/archive/1998/gg98103.pdf.

    Thomas J. Scotto

    Concept of Apportionment in the context of Real Property

    A short definition of Apportionment: A proper allocation of income and expenses of property, especially after a division of ownership.

    Concept of Apportionment in the context of Real Property

    A short definition of Apportionment: A proper allocation of income and expenses of property, especially after a division of ownership.

    Definition of Apportionment

    In relation to social issues, a meaning of apportionment is provided here: the distribution of legislative seats according to population

    Apportionment

    Meaning of Apportionment

    In this law dictionary, the legal term apportionment is a kind of the Tax class.

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  • Reapportionment
  • Taxation
  • Elections
  • Tax
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