383. APPORTIONMENT RATIO, Common.—
The Constitution has declared that
representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned
among the several States according
to their respective numbers. * * * That
is to say, they shall be apportioned by some
common ratio—for proportion and ratio are
equivalent words; and in the definition of
proportion among numbers, that they have a
ratio common to all, or in other words, a
common divisor.—
Opinion on Apportionment Bill. Washington ed. vii, 594.
Ford ed., v, 493.
(April. 1792)
