Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of apportioning.
- noun The condition of having been apportioned.
- noun The proportional distribution of the number of members of the US House of Representatives on the basis of the population of each state.
- noun Allotment of direct taxes on the basis of state population.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of apportioning; a dividing into portions or shares; a dividing and assigning of a just and equitable portion to each person interested or entitled to participate in any claim, right, property, or charge.
- noun In the United States: The distribution of representation in the federal House of Representatives, and in the houses of the different State legislatures.
- noun The allotment of direct taxes on the basis of population: a Congressional power rarely exercised.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
apportioning or the state of beingapportioned - noun US The
distribution of members of theHouse of Representatives according to thepopulation of the variousstates - noun US The
allocation ofdirect taxation according to the population of the various states
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
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Examples
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At present the apportionment is as follows: Church extension, 10 per cent; annual conferences, 36 per cent; and the financial
Religious Bodies: 1906 United States. Bureau of the Census. 1906
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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.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Health Care Mandate a Direct Tax? 2010
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Reforming Senate apportionment is impossible until the current constitution is scrapped by our Chinese overlords.
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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.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Health Care Mandate a Direct Tax? 2010
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Reforming Senate apportionment is impossible until the current constitution is scrapped by our Chinese overlords.
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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.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Health Care Mandate a Direct Tax? 2010
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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.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Health Care Mandate a Direct Tax? 2010
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Since there are no longer any slaves in the United States, apportionment is achieved if a tax applies to all free persons
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Health Care Mandate a Direct Tax? 2010
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Being direct, and therefore to be laid by apportionment, is there any real difficulty in doing so?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Health Care Mandate a Direct Tax? 2010
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Consider their most recent exploits in apportionment:
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