apportionment

IPA: ʌpˈɔrʃʌnmʌnt

The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.
(US) The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states.
(US) The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states.

Examples of "apportionment" in Sentences

Consider their most recent exploits in apportionment:
Being direct, and therefore to be laid by apportionment, is there any real difficulty in doing so?
Reforming Senate apportionment is impossible until the current constitution is scrapped by our Chinese overlords.
Since there are no longer any slaves in the United States, apportionment is achieved if a tax applies to all free persons
At present the apportionment is as follows: Church extension, 10 per cent; annual conferences, 36 per cent; and the financial
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.