Sentence examples for legislative apportionment from inspiring English sources

Disparity in the size of constituencies has been a recurring problem in legislative apportionment.

Legislative apportionment, also called legislative delimitation, process by which representation is distributed among the constituencies of a representative assembly.

With the growth of democracy, the extension of suffrage, and the rise of political parties, legislative apportionment became more complex.

Two additional representatives were added temporarily after the admission of Alaska and Hawaii as states in 1959, but at the next legislative apportionment, membership returned to 435, the number authorized by a law enacted in 1941.

Baker v. Carr 1962 Held that state legislative apportionment was justiciable in federal courts and effectively established the principle of "one person, one vote" for assessing the constitutionality of state apportionment plans.

Mr. Lewis did more than cover the decision; an article on legislative apportionment that he had written for The Harvard Law Review was cited in the decision at Footnote 27.

(Since 1967, the Apportionment Board has dealt with state legislative districts; legislative leaders have had control over Congressional district boundaries).

The bills, sponsored by Democrat David Valesky in the State Senate and Michael Gianaris in the State Assembly, proposes an "apportionment commission to create apportionment plans for congressional and state legislative districts" based on the Census.

In an opinion by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which was joined in full by six Justices, the Court approved a voting-apportionment process — currently used by every state — that requires all legislative districts to have an equal number of people.

The same legislative leaders previously mentioned would pick two members from the pool to be on the apportionment committee, and those eight people would choose three more members from the nominations pool.

Apportionment had to be methodically and mathematically arranged to ensure that the distribution of legislative seats reflected the will of the electorate.