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The Congressional Apportionment Amendment (originally titled Article the First) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution. It was one of twelve "articles of amendment" to the United States Constitution approved by the 1st Congress on September 25, 1789. They were sent to the legislatures of the several states for ratification. If adopted, it would establish a formula for determining the appropriate size of the House of Representatives following each constitutionally required wikt:decennial census. It is the only one of the twelve proposed amendments that has not been adopted, as it has not been ratified by enough states for it to become part of the Constitution.
Because Congress did not set a time limit for its ratification, the Congressional Apportionment Amendment is still technically pending before the states.[a] Ratification by an additional 27 states is now necessary for this amendment to be adopted. The other 1789 article of amendment ("Article the Second") of the original 12, was belatedly ratified in 1992. It became the Twenty-seventh Amendment.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Amending the Constitution". ThisNation.com. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
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