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388. APPORTIONMENT RATIO, Tricks in.—

No invasions of the Constitution
are fundamentally so dangerous as the tricks
played on their own numbers, apportionment,
and other circumstances respecting themselves,
and affecting their legal qualifications
to legislate for the Union.—
Opinion on Apportionment Bill. Washington ed. vii, 601. Ford ed., v, 500.
(1792)