The House Apportionment Formula in Theory and Practice
Description:
This report has four major purposes: to summarize the constitutional and statutory requirements governing apportionment; to explain how the current apportionment formula works in theory and in practice; to summarize recent challenges to it on grounds of unfairness; and to explain the reasoning underlying the choice of the equal
proportions method over its chief alternative, major fractions.
Date:
October 10, 2000
Creator:
Huckabee, David C.
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