Sentence examples for purpose of apportioning from inspiring English sources

One problem for Republicans was that the 13th Amendment abolished the clause in the Constitution that counted slaves as three-fifths of a man for the purpose of apportioning seats in the House of Representatives.

Risk weighting is the Basel-mandated process of assessing the perceived riskiness of a bank's assets for the purpose of apportioning capital, which is a bank's buffer against losses.

The 14th Amendment to the Constitution says that the Census must count "the whole number of persons in each State" every 10 years for the purpose of apportioning seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The 14th Amendment says that the census must count "the whole number of persons in each State" every 10 years for the purpose of apportioning seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

That is how the constitution defined people with darker skins for purposes of apportioning representation among the states.

The standoff led to a notorious compromise: for purposes of apportioning seats in the House, each slave would count as three-fifths of a person.

The Republican attack led to a 1999 Supreme Court decision that barred adjustments for purposes of apportioning House seats among the states but allowed it for Congressional districting within states.

For instance, the North only wanted free persons to be counted for purposes of apportioning seats in the House of Representatives.

The strong wording stops short of apportioning blame for the attack.

The whole story is concerned with the complicated business of apportioning blame, guilt and justice.

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