 | United States. President - 1917 - 662 páginas
...House should be composed of 386 members, to be chosen In districts composed of contiguous and compact territory and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of Inhabitants, each district electing one Representative. It was also provided that in case of an increase allowed... | |
 | 1918 - 844 páginas
...election by districts (I, 310, 519). The districts are required to be composed of contiguous and compact territory, and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants (I, 303). Questions have arisen from time to time when a vacancy has occurred soon after a change in... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature - 1919 - 924 páginas
...sixtythird and each subsequent congress shall be elected by districts composed of contiguous and compact territory and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants. The said district shall be equal to the number of representatives to which such state may be entitled... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn, Thomas Francis Moran - 1918 - 510 páginas
...the representatives of each State shall be elected in districts " composed of contiguous and compact territory and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants." While a Congressional District should have approximately 212,000 people, it is not possible to make... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Census - 1921 - 228 páginas
...Sixty-eighth and each subsequent Congress shall be elected by districts composed of a contiguous and compact territory, and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants. The said districts shall be equal to the number of Representatives to which such State may be entitled... | |
 | Charles Grove Haines, Bertha Moser Haines - 1921 - 628 páginas
...state laws require that representatives be elected "by districts composed of contiguous and compact territory and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants," gerrymandering is practiced by all parties. For example, Virginia, with a Democratic vote in 1909 of... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Census - 1921 - 238 páginas
...Sixty-eighth and each subsequent Congress shall be elected by districts composed of a contiguous and compact territory, and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants. The said districts shall be equal to the number of Representatives to which such State may be entitled... | |
 | F. G. Jewett - 1921 - 872 páginas
...Sixty-third and each subsequent Congress shall be elected by districts composed of a contiguous and compact territory, and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants. The said districts shall be equal to the number of Representatives to which such State may be entitled... | |
 | 1921 - 158 páginas
...Congressional District. The apportionment act of 1912 provided that Congressman (that is, Representatives) shall be elected from districts composed of contiguous territory and containing as nearly as possible an equal number of inhabitants, the number of such districts equaling the number of Representatives... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1924 - 1044 páginas
...Fifty-eighth and each subsequent Congress shall be elected by districts composed of contiguous and compact territory and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants. The said districts shall be equal to the number of the Representatives to which such State may be entitled... | |
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Sec. 3. That, in each state entitled under this apportionment, the number to which such state may be entitled in the 53d and each subsequent Congress shall be elected by districts composed of contiguous territory, and containing, as nearly as practicable,... 
