from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun The act of apportioning.
noun The condition of having been apportioned.
noun The proportional distribution of the number of members of the US House of Representatives on the basis of the population of each state.
noun Allotment of direct taxes on the basis of state population.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun The act of apportioning; a dividing into portions or shares; a dividing and assigning of a just and equitable portion to each person interested or entitled to participate in any claim, right, property, or charge.
noun In the United States: The distribution of representation in the federal House of Representatives, and in the houses of the different State legislatures.
noun The allotment of direct taxes on the basis of population: a Congressional power rarely exercised.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned
noun US The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states
noun US The allocation of directtaxation according to the population of the various states
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
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At present the apportionment is as follows: Church extension, 10 per cent; annual conferences, 36 per cent; and the financial
But since the only requirement of apportionment is that a direct tax or capitation can only to three-fifths of a slave, and since we no longer have slaves, it no longer has any effect.
Since there are no longer any slaves in the United States, apportionment is achieved if a tax applies to all free persons, excluding Indians not taxed.
Since there are no longer any slaves in the United States, apportionment is achieved if a tax applies to all free persons, excluding Indians not taxed.
But since the only requirement of apportionment is that a direct tax or capitation can only to three-fifths of a slave, and since we no longer have slaves, it no longer has any effect.
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