Sentence examples for apportionment scheme from inspiring English sources

That the congressional apportionment scheme would be upset can easily be demonstrated.

The Court refused to dismiss the case or stay its action on the ground, asserted by defendants, that plaintiffs should be required first to procure the views of the state courts on the validity of the apportionment scheme.

Since we hold that the court below erred in finding the New York legislative apportionment scheme here challenged to be constitutionally valid, we express no view on the correctness of the District Court's exclusion of this evidence.

Appellants have argued, however, that this decision indicates that Virginia courts will also adjudicate questions relating to the validity of the State's legislative apportionment scheme under the provisions of the Federal Constitution.

It might well be that, designedly or otherwise, a multi-member constituency apportionment scheme, under the circumstances of a particular case, would operate to minimize or cancel out the voting strength of racial or political elements of the voting population.

In response, Florida's 1868 Constitution established a legislative apportionment scheme that diminished representation from densely populated black counties and put in place a lifetime voting ban for people with criminal convictions that targeted crimes for which blacks were most often convicted like larceny, perjury and bribery.

At its 1962 regular session, the Virginia General Assembly completely disregarded both the commission report and the plans prepared by the Bureau, and adopted apportionment schemes of its own for each house, in practical effect making only minimal changes in the existing statutory provisions.

Of course, the downside of a similar pronouncement in Evenwel is that states could run away with it and then have too much freedom to experiment with questionable apportionment schemes.

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

We must determine what apportionment and delivery scheme in the Lower Basin has been effected through the Secretary's contracts.

Accordingly, we hold that the District Court erred in upholding the constitutionality of New York's scheme of legislative apportionment.