The U.S. census and congressional apportionment

Abstract

The author discusses the method by which U.S. congressional members are apportioned using census figures. "The question becomes how much of a deviation from one man one vote can be tolerated. I consider this question next in a brief discussion of the current apportionment Method of Equal Proportions and an alternative method that some have suggested should be used that of Major Fractions. Later I review the history of U.S. apportionment procedures....I conclude by presenting and discussing the results of an exercise in which I apply the methods of Equal Proportions and Major Fractions to apportionment population data for the U.S. states for 1990 and 2000." (EXCERPT)