reapportionment

Examples

• All

• The state legislature will begin the process of reapportionment following the latest census results.

• Reapportionment of the House also occurs every 10 years, as prescribed in the Constitution: see Article I, Section 3.

  Academic text (2018)

• The Court had just decided the first of the reapportionment cases.

  Academic text (1993)

• Among these are two racial reapportionment cases presenting highly charged issues under the Voting Rights Act.

  Academic text (1993)

• The U.S. Census Bureau is responsible for conducting a census every ten years for the reapportionment of the House of Representatives.

  Academic text (2007)

• The reapportionment occurs with the second full congressional term following the publication of the decennial census.

  Academic text (2018)

• In 1920, southern congressmen blocked reapportionment for 10 years when the numbers showed rapid urban growth at the expense of rural areas.

  Academic text (2010)

• Reapportionment forced the New Jersey Democrat into a primary against another sitting Democratic representative, Steve Rothman, in the ninth district.

  Academic text (2013)

• The federal head counters, through a related process called reapportionment, determine how many congressional seats each state will have according to population gains and losses over the past decade.

  Academic text (2011)

• Despite the total census population's ubiquity as a reapportionment baseline, the Court has had few opportunities to consider whether that dataset is always acceptable as a one-person, one-vote yardstick.

  Academic text (2017)

Synonyms

R

redistribution

vsreapportionment

62 4.5

To give things out again, often money or land, to make things fairer

is about changing seat numbers after census, not mainly equality

R

reallocation

vsreapportionment

4 5.5

The act of giving something out again in a different way, like staff or money

is specifically about assigning seats after a census

A

apportionment

vsreapportionment

3 7.8

The sharing of things among people or groups according to a plan

focuses on reallocating congressional seats after population change

A

apportioning

vsreapportionment

1 7.5

Dividing and giving things among people or groups by a plan

centres on changing seat assignments after census results

R

reallotment

vsreapportionment

• Formal

8.2

Giving political seats to areas again after a new population count

has the same meaning and purpose in that context

A

assignation

vsreapportionment

• Archaic

8.9

Giving things, money or jobs to people according to a plan

applies that idea specifically to seat reassignment after the census

How Extensive

redistribution

62 4.5

reapportionment

• Formal

3 9.1

reallocation

4 5.5

adjustment

133 2.9

Surface Forms

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Etymology