apportionment

Examples of apportionment in the following topics:

• The 16th Amendment

  • The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

• Electoral Districts

  • Apportionment is generally done on the basis of population.
  • Apportionment is the process of allocating a number of representatives to different regions, such as states or provinces.
  • Apportionment changes are often accompanied by redistricting, the redrawing of electoral district boundaries to accommodate the new number of representatives.
  • Apportionment is generally done on the basis of population.

• The House and the Senate: Differences in Responsibilities and Representation

  • The number was temporarily increased to 437 in 1959 upon the admission of Alaska and Hawaii, seating one representative from each of those states without changing existing apportionment, and returned to 435 four years later, after the reapportionment consequent to the 1960 census.

• Congressional Districts

  • The quantity (apportionment) and boundaries (redistricting) of districts are determined after each census, although in some cases states have changed the boundaries more than once per census.

• The Constitutional Convention

  • Ultimately, however, its main contribution was in determining the apportionment of the Senate and, thus, retaining a federal character in the constitution.
  • The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the enumerated population of slaves would be counted for representation purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives.

• The Nomination Campaign

  • Electoral college map for the 2012, 2016 and 2020 United States presidential elections, using apportionment data released by the US Census Bureau.

• Federal Income Tax Rates

  • Since apportionment of income taxes was impractical, this decision effectively prohibited a federal tax on income from property.

• The 2012 Presidential Election

  • Census changed the apportionment of votes in the Electoral College, potentially changing the allocation of votes among swing states.

• Constitutional Issues and Compromises

  • Ultimately, its main contribution was determining the method for apportionment of the Senate and retaining a federal character in the constitution.

• The House of Representatives