Apportionment Puns

Are there any plans for this to be added to the game?

Context, I've been North Carolina governor, as a Democrat, for 2 terms, winning handily both times, by 16 points and 20 points respectively.

The balance of power in the state legislature has been exactly the same throughout, not a single seat has changed hands. Strong Republican majorities throughout, so I've got very little done.

I know this is realistic, NC is a pink state, and said republican legislature has drawn itself favourable districts, hence my question, is there scope for adding this dimension to the game, where:

A) congressional apportionment changes with population changes?

B) States redistrict based on whatever rules they have in place?

C) Based on the demographics, income, poverty levels etc states might drift in terms of partisan lean over time?

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Whether you like its representation algorithm or view it as a way to force Congress to expand the house by other means, what state(s) do you think would be best to push or is otherwise open to next ratify the apportionment amendment? And why?

The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929^1 fixed the size of the House of Representatives at 435, where it has remained since.

> In the century-plus since the number of House seats first reached its current total of 435 (excluding nonvoting delegates), the representation ratio has more than tripled – from one representative for every 209,447 people in 1910 to one for every 747,184 as of [2017].^2

Political^3 commentators^4 and^5 organizations^6 alike^7 have called for the expansion of the House.

• What was the stated reasoning/arguments for and against the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929?

• How do those 1929 reason compare to modern arguments for/against increasing the House seats?

Edit : This a mod rework of a user submission.

After seeing Matt Parker's recent video on apportionment (https://youtu.be/GVhFBujPlVo), I've become fascinated with the subject and would like to read more. Though, I can't find any books delving deeply into the mathematics of the subject. Have I missed something? Is there a well-respected book I can buy to read more on the subject?

The Congressional Apportionment Amendment was one of the proposed amendments for the bill of rights, which would have set the HoR size to one rep per 50,000 constituents. The amendment was sent to the states for ratification, but fell one state short, and no state has ratified it since 1792

As there was no sunset in the proposal, it can still be approved if ratified by the requisite number of states. 11 have ratified, 27 more would be required.

With the current population, the size of the house would be over 6000 under the terms of the amendment, which is completely nonviable. The current size of 435 was set by the Apportionment Act of 1911 and hasn't been changed in over a century.

Since it can still technically be ratified, could some larger states with complaints over disproportionate representation use the pending amendment to push the issue into a more prominent discussion? Could a few more states ratifying, or seriously considering it, be a catalyst to drive apportionment reform, even though the chance of hitting 38 states is slim to none, and implementation would be unrealistic anyway?

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The plain text of the Amendment would cap district size at 1:50,000. However, the legislative history and drafting of the Amendment point to an open-ended reading; each time the size of the House increases by 100 members, max district size increases by 10,000. Which is the more common interpretation on this sub?

I've long been a fan of "Article the First" but have just discovered the sub, so I'm curious.

I'm researching the apportionment methods used to apportions seats to the house of representatives (Hamilton's, Jefferson's, Adam's, Webster's, etc...).

I'm having trouble understanding the method of equal proportions and Huntington Hill's method. Are they the same method?

What I'm guessing is Hill's method is used for calculating geometric means and doing stuff with that, and Huntington Hill's method is a different method that corrected an error in Hill's method, and we call this the method of equal proportions. Is this correct?

I'm working on a software project about this and already implemented Hamilton's, Jefferson's, Webster's, and Adam's methods and want to add the method of equal proportions and Hill's, but am confused about what Huntington Hill's method is. Thanks.

I have a few clients invested in out-of-state real estate and PE partnerships. They received federal K-1s for these investments but no state K-1s or state income apportionment summaries.

The clients are all invested in the same partnerships so I asked one client to inquire for a state k-1 from one of the partnership tax preparers. The preparer replied that there was no state k-1.

Now I know not all states have K-1s. But at the very least we need to know where the income should be sourced from.

So this raises two questions for me:

1. I always prepare state k-1s, where applicable, and/or state apportionment summaries with my pass-through entity returns. Is there a reason not to do this?
2. In the absence of a state k-1 or income sourcing info, to what state would we source the income? We know that some of the real estate partnerships have properties exclusively in one state. But others are multi-state, so it will be difficult to source the income without info from the partnership.

I'm a solo CPA so I will appreciate your help.

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I was talking to someone, and they said that it would require a super majority (60%) in the Senate to do this.

I think it takes a super majority to pass an amendment, and this isn't an amendment.

But it did lead me to question whether I know exactly what I'm talking about.

So a congressional act gets passed by a simple majority, right?

And the reapportionment acts are acts of congress, so therefore it takes a simple majority to uncap the House?

And supposing we end the act that caps the house size, what do we need to install wyoming 1, 2, cube root, (insert your ideal method)?

I appreciate insights and expertise, but a source that is easy to understand for people we are trying to persuade would be ideal.

As in sometimes the language of the Constitution is clear, and at other times it's a bit wordy.