Fair Representation: Understanding Apportionment Principles
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Learn the concept of apportionment and how to divide entities based on proportions. Discover the fairness principle regarding representation distribution among various entities like states, schools, or populations.
Fair Representation: Understanding Apportionment Principles
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Activity 9 Apportionment
What does apportion mean? • Apportion—to divide and assign in due and proper proportion or according to some plan. • How do we take a number of objects of the same kind and divide them among several entities(people, schools, states, etc.) when each entity is entitled to a different sized share?
A Basic Fairness Principle • The number of representatives that an entity is entitled to should be proportional to its percentage of the total population. • For example, if a state’s population is 10% of the total population, ideally it should receive 10% of the representatives.