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Constitutional Congregressional Apportionment Problem

 

  How many seats in the U. S. House of Representatives does each state get?

 

An answer is presented as an historical narrative with relevant and timely applications in a book, The History of Congressional Apportionment, Second Edition, 2021.  Available as a free download from The History of Congressional Apportionment | The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt .

Chapter 1.  Congressional Apportionment Based on the Census: 1790.

Chapter 2.  Congressional Apportionment Based on the Census: 1800-1840.

Chapter 3.  Congressional Apportionment Based on the Census: 1850-1890.

Chapter 4.  Congressional Apportionment Based on the Census: 1900-1930.

Chapter 5.  Congressional Apportionment Based on the Census: 1940-2020.

Chapter 6.  An Historical Overture.

Second Edition
2021

First Edition published 2017.

The History of Congressional Apportionment

Fourth Printing (4 August 2019)

Third Printing (27 July 2019)

Second Printing  (13 November 2017)

Errata and Updates for First Printing

HSU Press

Last update: 13 November 2017.

Cover insprired by a graphic courtesy of

The West Virginia Record

… no political problem is less susceptible of a precise solution than that which relates to the number most convenient for a representative legislature, …

James Madison

The Federalist 55

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