apportionment
uh pawr shuhn muhnt
- n the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state
- In fact, without my amendment the apportionment bill is not constitutional.
- These included: settlement of the Ottoman debt by apportionment among ex-Ottoman territories; regulation of concessions; settlement of the Mosul (Oil) Question; conclusion of .
- It holds that crazy-quilt systems of legislative apportionment may violate the 14th Amendment to the Constitution requiring "equal protection of the laws.