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Definition of Reapportion

Reapportion
Reapportion Re`ap*por"tion, v. t. To apportion again.

Meaning of Reapportion from wikipedia

- States census. However, the Republican-controlled Congress failed to reapportion the House membership prior to the 1922 election, and therefore the congressional...
- Congress failed to reapportion the House membership as required by the United States Constitution. This failure to reapportion may have been politically...
- politics, with disenfranchi****t of African Americans and refusal to reapportion the legislature; only after the federal legislation p****ed were more...
- defines the formula, in accordance with Title 2 of the U.S. Code, to reapportion among the states the 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives...
- House was added after the 1950 census, but the state did not immediately reapportion. It was contested as a statewide at-large seat in three elections, 1952...
- achievement". Hoover's detractors wondered why he did not do anything to reapportion congress after the 1920 United States census which saw an increase in...
- state from 1901 to 1961, the rural-dominated legislature refused to reapportion House and Senate seats based on po****tion, as required by the state...
- gained two seats in the U.S. House, from three to five, but did not reapportion for the 1912 election. The two new seats were elected as statewide at-large...
- US census. Until 2011, Maine's constitution provided for the state to reapportion the congressional districts based on census data every ten years beginning...
- 1818 and 1848 Illinois Constitutions, the legislature could add and reapportion districts at any time, and by 1870 it had done so ten times. Under the...