Sentence examples for apportionment act from inspiring English sources

The 1901 Apportionment Act here involved violates that policy in the same way.

The 1901 State Apportionment Act, in reducing the effectiveness of appellants' votes, abridges their privilege as citizens to vote for Congressmen, and violates Article I of the Constitution.

There, this Court simply held that the State Apportionment Act did not violate the Congressional Reapportionment Act of 1929, 46 Stat.

Throughout our history, whatever may have been the controlling Apportionment Act, the most glaring disparities have prevailed as to the contours and the population of districts.

The crucial legislation was the Land Apportionment Act of 1930, which barred African landownership outside the reserves, except in a special freehold purchase area set aside for "progressive farmers".

The Land Apportionment Act, a segregationist measure that governed land allocation and acquisition prior to independence, made no provision for blacks who chose an urban life, because towns were designated as white areas.

After the breakup of the federation in 1963 and Prime Minister Smith's unilateral declaration of independence from Britain two years later, Bishop Lamont criticized the new segregationist Constitution and land apportionment acts, which divided the country into black and white areas, calling them "a direct contradiction of the New Testament's teaching".

C. The Project Act's Apportionment and Distribution Scheme.

Resolution of this dispute requires a determination of what apportionment, if any, is made by the Project Act and what powers are conferred by the Act upon the Secretary of the Interior.

What Congress was doing in the Project Act was providing for an apportionment among the Lower Basin States of the water allocated to that basin by the Colorado River Compact.

'It may be true that the Boulder Canyon Project Act leaves in doubt the apportionment among the states of the lower basin of the waters to which the lower basin is entitled under article III(b -But the act does not purport to apportion among the states of the lower b -Butthe wactrs to which the lower basin is entitledoesder the compact.