एक नया विभाजन (विशेष रूप से जनगणना के परिणामों के आधार पर संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका में कांग्रेस की सीटों का एक नया विभाजन

Noun:

Reapportionment,

reapportionment's Usage Examples:

In 1786 they were forced to consent to the removal of the seat of government to Columbia (final removal, 1790) and in 1808 to a reapportionment of the representation, based partly on wealth and partly on numbers.

It provided for an enumeration and a reapportionment each tenth year after 1865.

The reapportionment of congressional, senatorial and representative districts is made in the first legislative session after the state census, which has been taken in every tenth year since 1865.

There is a new reapportionment every ten years, counting from 1821.

In the House of Representatives seats were to be distributed in proportion to the population, and the convention, foreseeing rapid changes of population, ordained an enumeration of the inhabitants and a redistribution or reapportionment of seats in the House of Representatives every ten years.

This was about the first indication of a tendency, which grew in strength for half a century, to load the Federal census with inquiries having no essential or necessary connexion with its main purpose, which was to secure an accurate enumeration of the population as a basis for a reapportionment of seats in the House of Representatives.

Dorr (1805-1854), a young lawyer of Providence, began a systematic campaign for an extension of the suffrage, a reapportionment of representation and the establishment of an independent judiciary.

The constitution provides for a reapportionment every ten years beginning in 1861.

reapportionment's Meaning':

a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results