A new method for congressional apportionment.
The problem of Congressional apportionment is explained together with a brief history of the methods used or considered for its solution. Reasons are given for rejecting the presently used method of equal proportions and for accepting a new method, the quota method, which is the unique method satisfying three essential axioms.
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Ph.D. Program in Mathematics, Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York, 33 West 42 Street, New York, N.Y. 10036.
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