 In each State entitled under this apportionment, the number to which such State may he entitled in the Fifty-eighth and each subsequent Congress shall be elected by districts composed of contiguous and compact territory and containing as nearly as practicable...  State Library Bulletin: Legislation - Página 273por New York State Library - 1903Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1918 - 844 páginas
...the law has required election by districts (I, 310, 519). The districts are required to be composed of contiguous and compact territory, and containing...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... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn, Thomas Francis Moran - 1918 - 510 páginas
...of Congress provides that the representatives of each State shall be elected in districts " composed of contiguous and compact territory and containing...nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants." While a Congressional District should have approximately 212,000 people, it is not possible to make... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature - 1919 - 924 páginas
...representatives to the sixtythird and each subsequent congress shall be elected by districts composed of contiguous and compact territory and containing...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... | |
 | Charles Grove Haines, Bertha Harner Moser Hains - 1921 - 626 páginas
...Congressmen.1 Although Federal and state laws require that representatives be elected "by districts composed of contiguous and compact territory and containing...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 - 228 páginas
...Representatives to the 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Census - 1921 - 238 páginas
...Representatives to the 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
...Representatives to the 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Census - 1921 - 100 páginas
...fixed the number of Representatives at 283 Members, to be elected by districts composed of contiguous territory and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants. Under this act provision was made for electing Members at Large, in the States In which an increased... | |
 | Rodney Loomer Mott - 1925 - 420 páginas
...Representatives to the Sixtythird 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. U.S Congress. House. Committee on the census - 1926 - 64 páginas
...Representatives to the 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 in habitants. The said districts 'shall be equal to the number of Representatives to which such State... | |
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