A New Method of Apportionment of Representatives

摘要: The only provisions of the United States Constitution which bear on present problem apportionment are following: "Repre? sentatives shall be apportioned among several states according to their respective numbers, counting whole number persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed." "The enumeration made within . every term ten years." representatives exceed one for 30,000, but state have at least representative." Since fractional representation appears out question, is how distribute any given total (N) repre? proportion populations "as nearly as may be." In other words, considering first case two states, approximate most closely condition expressed by A : B :: a b,