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1503. CONGRESS, Apportionment and.

—No invasions of the Constitution are fundamentally
so dangerous as the tricks played
on their own numbers, appointment, 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)

See Apportionment.