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.
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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