how 435 seats are distributed to 50 states From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apportionment or apportionment by population is a concept in United States law of allocating representatives or taxes among the US states.[1] Apportionment is based on the United States Census taken every ten years.[2] Seats in the United States House of Representatives are then apportioned among the states. Each state gets a number of seats based on its population (the minimum is one seat). Congress enacted new apportionment legislation following every census until the mid-20th century.[2] Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution requires that direct taxes be apportioned among the states by population.[3] Apportionment by population proved to be a nearly impossible, uneven and unfair requirement for collecting taxes since the states had different populations.[3] This was overturned by the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which removed the apportionment requirement from Congress imposing direct taxes.[4]
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