 | Rodney Loomer Mott - 1925 - 420 páginas
...enacted that the number of representatives to which each state was entitled, should "be elected by districts composed of contiguous territory, and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants."1 Since that time congressional districts have been presumed to be equal in population;... | |
 | United States. U.S Congress. House. Committee on the census - 1926 - 64 páginas
...Seventieth 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... | |
 | United States - 1927 - 362 páginas
...the Representatives to 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... | |
 | New York (State). Attorney General's Office - 1919 - 396 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... | |
 | John Mabry Mathews, Clarence Arthur Berdahl - 1928 - 1004 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... | |
 | Stuart Lewis - 1928 - 720 páginas
...provision of federal law that Congressmen "shall be elected by districts composed of contiguous and compact territory and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants." (31 Stat. L. 733-4.) Any single piece of territory is "contiguous," the heading shows how "compact"... | |
 | Massachusetts. Attorney General's Office - 1899 - 746 páginas
...first Monday of November; there shall be thirteen from Massachusetts; and they shall be elected by districts composed of contiguous territory, and containing,...nearly as practicable, an equal number of inhabitants. The apportionment of the number of representatives being by the United States census, I am of opinion... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Census - 1981 - 164 páginas
...Seventy-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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1932 - 696 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... | |
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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,... 
