Apportionment of RepresentativesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1928 - Administrative and political divisions |
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absolute differences agree anticipatory legislation apportionment ratios average population basis California Census Bureau census of 1920 CHAIRMAN CLANCY Congress fails congressional district Congressman constitutional law CRAIL definition delegate Detroit diagram discussion Doctor HILL Doctor WILLCOX Doctor Young duty equal proportions favor February 21 Fenn bill give going gress HART FENN hearings House of Representatives Iowa JACOBSTEIN KAHN last winter LOZIER major fractions mathematical matter McLeod bill measure Member of Congress membership ment method of apportionment method of equal method of major method of minimum method of rejected Michigan minimum range ministerial North Carolina NORTH DAKOTA number of Representatives opinion pass population per Representative President Prof Professor Willcox Professor Young proposition question RANKIN ratio of population reapportion reapportionment reapportionment bill reason referred rejected fractions Repre representation Rhode Island Senate session statisticians THURSTON tion tionment United Vermont Virginia voted to recommit
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Page 71 - He entered elaborately into the defence of a proportional representation, stating, for his first position, that, as all authority was derived from the people, equal numbers of people ought to have an equal number of representatives, and different numbers of people, different numbers of representatives. This principle had been improperly violated in the Confederation, owing to the urgent circumstances of the time.
Page 28 - Representatives among the several states under such enumeration; and the said Secretary of the Department of the Interior shall then proceed, in the same manner, to ascertain the representative population of each state, and to divide the whole number of the representative population of each state by the ratio already determined by him as above directed; and the product of this last division shall be the number of Representatives apportioned to such state under the then last enumeration...
Page 28 - States, by adding to the whole number of free persons in all the States, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons...
Page 32 - We have lost our ideal. (Thereupon, at 12 o'clock noon, the committee adjourned to meet again at the call of the chairman.) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Friday, May 21, 1926.
Page 24 - Representatives among the several States, so that the ratios of population to Representatives, and also the ratios of Representatives to population, shall be as equal as may be among the several States (S.
Page 28 - ... of a unit, if any such happen to remain, shall be the ratio or rule of apportionment of representatives among the several States under such enumeration; and the said Secretary of the Department of the Interior shall then proceed in the same manner to ascertain the representative population of each State, and to divide the whole number of the representative population...
Page 80 - Constitution which alone is consistent with the use of the* " method of major fractions " is to be preferred to other possible special interpretations which lead to other methods of apportionment. We conclude, therefore, that the " method of equal proportions," consistent as it is with the literal meaning of the words of the Constitution, is logically superior to the " method of major fractions." In the sections which follow we explain the considerations which have led us to these conclusions. I....
Page 94 - We will have to close the hearing now. (Thereupon, at 12 o'clock noon, the committee adjourned to meet again at the call of the chairman.) COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, DC, Thursday, October 23, 1919.
Page 28 - States, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons; which aggregate population...
Page 83 - ... method of major fractions. The method of equal proportions, it is interesting to note, gives results that are intermediate between those given by these two ways of measuring "nearness" by absolute differences. It is somewhat more favorable to the small states than is the method of major fractions and somewhat more favorable to the large states than that method would be if it made use of the other form of fractions. On purely mathematical grounds there is no reason to prefer one of these two forms...