Sentence examples for apportionment among from inspiring English sources

5. Apportionment among party interests: systems of proportional representation are designed to reflect as many facets of voter opinion as possible.

This law was, however, held to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, which forced its backers to seek an amendment to the Constitution that would give Congress the right to impose income taxes without apportionment among the states.

In the years following, Fletcher conducted land apportionment among the Winnebago and Nez Percé Indians and wrote Indian Story and Song from North America (1900) and The Hako: A Pawnee Ceremony (1904; reissued 1996).

The full text of the Amendment is: 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.

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.

2. Apportionment among self-contained governing units (e.g., towns, counties, cities, states, etc).: the unit of local government acts as the constituency and is represented in higher legislative bodies.

Isolated sections of the code may well admit of more than one interpretation, but the general coherence of the legislative scheme may not be altered by judicial interpretation so as to wholly change the statutorily provided apportionment of responsibility among these various bodies.

Bush would often ask: "Will it help to win a war; this war?" Other challenges involved obtaining adequate funds from the president and Congress and determining apportionment of research among government, academic, and industrial facilities.

Allocation of resources, apportionment of productive assets among different uses.

The Supreme Court has ruled that only the raw numbers can determine the apportionment of Congressional seats among the states.

If the reading was meant to be a win for originalism, however, it stumbled out of the gate, over the text of Article I, Section 2. This deals with the apportionment of House seats among the states, which is said to be based on "the whole number of free persons" and "three-fifths of all other persons".