The Constitution has prescribed that Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, and there is no one proportion or divisor which, applied to the respective numbers of the States, will yield the... Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan - Page 9by Michigan. Supreme Court, George C. Gibbs, Randolph Manning, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, William Jennison, Elijah W. Meddaugh, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, Hovey K. Clarke, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1893Full view - About this book
| United States - 1832 - 918 pages
...objections^ First. The constitution has prescribed t!ia representatives shall be apportioned among th< several States according to their respective numbers, and there is no one proportion or di visor, which, applied to the respective numbers of the States, will yield the number ant allotment... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...enumeration,' and I return it to your House, wherein it originated, with the following objections. " First, The Constitution has prescribed that Representatives...according to their respective numbers, and there is no proportion or division which, applied to the respective numbers of the states, will yield the number,... | |
| John Marshall - 1807 - 840 pages
...first enumeration" and I return it to your house, wherein it originated, with the following objections. First. The constitution has prescribed that representatives...states according to their respective numbers, and there is.no proportion or divisor which, applied to the respective numbers of the states, will yield the... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 pages
...enumeration/ and I return it to your House, wherein it originated., with the following objections. *' First, The constitution has prescribed that Representatives...according to their respective numbers, and there is no proportion or division which, applied to the respective numbers of the stale-*, will yield the number,... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1833 - 746 pages
...rule of proportion. General Washington's first objection to the bill of 1792 was, that "there was no proportion or divisor which, applied to the respective...allotment of representatives proposed by the bill." Now, sir, I ask the mover of the amendment to tell us what proportion or divisor, applied to the respective... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - Presidents - 1826 - 234 pages
...among the several states according to their respective numbers, and there is no proportion or division which, applied to the respective numbers of the states,...allotment of Representatives proposed by the bill. " Secondly, The Constitution has also provided, that the number of Representatives shall not exceed... | |
| Joseph Blunt - History - 1833 - 708 pages
...matter of arbitrary discretion. In regard to this character of the bill, President Washington said, ' the constitution has prescribed that representatives...allotment of representatives proposed by the bill. ' In the opinion of the committee, no such objection applies to the amendment recommended by them.... | |
| Joseph Blunt - History - 1833 - 710 pages
...matter of arbitrary discretion. In regard to this character of the bill, President Washington said, ' the constitution has prescribed that representatives...allotment of representatives proposed by the bill. ' In the opinion of the committee, no such objection applies to the amendment recommended by them.... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1833 - 748 pages
...enumeration,' and I return it to your House, wherein it originated, with the following objections: First. The constitution has prescribed that representatives shall be apportioned among the several Slates according to their respective numbers; and there is no one proportion or divisor which, applied... | |
| United States. Congress - United States - 1833 - 752 pages
...rule of proportion. General Washington's first objection to the bill of 1792 was, that "there was no proportion or divisor which, applied to the respective numbers of the States, w ill yield the number and allotment of representatives proposed by the bill." Now, sir, I ask the... | |
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