Crossword clues for reapportionment
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reapportionment \Re`ap*por"tion*ment\ (-ment), n. A second or a new apportionment.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of reapportioning; a second or subsequent apportionment. 2 (context US politics English) Reassignment of representation in a legislature, especially of U.S. House of Representative seats, in accord with changes in the census population determination.
WordNet
n. a new apportionment (especially a reallotment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) [syn: reallotment, reallocation]
Usage examples of "reapportionment".
Justice Black in a dissent supported by Justices Douglas and Murphy thought that the case was justiciable and would have invalidated the reapportionment, leaving the State free to elect all of its representatives from the State at large.
Supreme Court is on the verge of reentering the political thicket of reapportionment in a major way.
Supreme Court reviewed reapportionment in Pennsylvania, where it had been alleged that the majority party redrew the district boundaries in order to favor themselves.
On the issue of reapportionment of state legislatures, decided in Colegrove v.
Fourteenth Amendment reapportionment case at all, but rather a Fifteenth Amendment case of specific racial discrimination.
This in spite of the fact that the state constitution required reapportionment every ten years.
He wondered, for example, if the result of reapportionment would be to create urban dominance of the legislature.
This of course implies that geography, economics, country versus city, and all the other factors which have throughout our history entered into political districting are to some extent not to be ruled out in future reapportionment litigation.
We can use Skjorning to break the Fringe and then ram reapportionment through whatever opposition is left, but are you all too blind to see what will happen then?
Computer-Time Reapportionment Board--a gift more valued than glitterstim.
At the front, peasant soldiers, the vast majority, deserted in huge numbers for fear of missing out on land reapportionment back at home.
It failed to make such a reapportionment after the census of 1920, being unable to reach agreement for allotting representation without further increasing the size of the House.
After the reapportionment made pursuant to the 1930 census, deadlocks between the Governor and legislature in several States, produced a series of cases in which the right of the Governor to veto a reapportionment bill was questioned.
The Court held that the provisions of the Reapportionment Act of 1929 did not reenact the requirements of the act of 1911 and that it was therefore unnecessary to determine whether the questions raised were justiciable.
Even the reapportionment decisions, which mandated significant changes in voting districts, did not come as a complete surprise following the civil rights cases.