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What Is Congressional Reapportionment?

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A.) Congressional reapportionment is the process were seats in the House of Representatives, are adjusted to accurately reflect the current population of the states. This means if a particular state’s population increases, the House must add seats accordingly. Same goes if a state decreases in population; a seats in the House may need to be removed. Representation Censuses and Congressional reapportionment are all precautions to assure the states, or more importantly, the people, are being represented accurately. B.) Following Congressional reapportionment, district lines must be redrawn accordingly. This process is called Congressional redistricting. Congressional redistricting is the redrawing of district lines according to the state’s numbers

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