Apportioning the United States House of Representatives

Michel Balinski and H. P. Young
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H. P. Young: School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

Interfaces, 1983, vol. 13, issue 4, 35-43

Abstract: Apportionment is the constitutional problem of allocating the seats of the United States House of Representatives proportionally to states' populations. History and common sense together suggest a fundamental set of principles of fairness that should be met by any method used to solve it. The principles determine a unique method originally proposed by Daniel Webster in 1832 that was discarded in 1941 on fallacious grounds in favor of the present one.

Keywords: public policy; government (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1983
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