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What is a reapportionment?

What is a reapportionment? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The act of reapportioning; a second or subsequent apportionment.
  2. (politics) Reassignment of representation in a legislature, especially of U.S. House of Representative seats, in accord with changes in the census population determination.
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Lower tax levels, along with any reapportionment of the various types of taxation, are a mistake if market-driven.
Under the reapportionment, Texas will gain four seats, Florida will gain two and six other states in the South and West will gain one each.
In the dawn Parr hobbled down the line of yawning porters, checking the reapportionment of burdens.
This became a definite go when he lost all the legislative races, and used reapportionment as the excuse.
The Constitution requires that reapportionment or redistricting take place every ten years to offset population changes.
The question of the reapportionment of representation was one of the greatest importance.

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