Debating the size of the House : competing theories of representation and the history of reapportionment /

This book explores the process by which constitutional indeterminacies involving reapportionment were resolved through the political process and examines how the current House arrived at its 435-seat limit. In doing so, it also elucidates the way the House was instituted and reconstituted after each...

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Main Author:	Ross, Robert E., 1981- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2026]
Subjects:	United States. > Congress. > House > Election districts. United States. > Congress. > House > Election districts > History. Apportionment (Election law) > United States. Representative government and representation > United States. Répartition des sièges > États-Unis. Apportionment (Election law) Representative government and representation United States Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Reapportionment and American Political Thought and Development
Chapter 3: Theories of Representation
Chapter 3: Adequate Representation and Jefferson's Divisor Method, 1790-1830
Chapter 4: Legislative Assembly and Webster's Method, 1830-1850
Chapter 5: Adequate Representation and an Automatic Process, 1850-1910
Chapter 6: The Failure to Reapportion, 1910-1930
Chapter 7: The Permanent Process, 1930 and beyond.