malapportionmentn.
/ˌmaləˈpɔːʃnm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈˌmæləˈpɔrʃənmənt/ U.S. Politics.
Bad or inequitable apportionment, spec. of representation in a political assembly, legislative body, or electoral constituency.
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society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > government by the people or their delegates > [noun] > representative government > quality of not being representative
unrepresentativeness1888
malapportionment1951
1951 Jrnl. Politics May 193 The state legislatures..had become through malapportionment and conservative rural domination, the citadels of the heirs of Federalism.
1964 D. M. Berman In Congress Assembled xiv. 387 In Congress, the malapportionment of the Senate is constitutionally ordained: the equality of all states in the Senate was part of the ‘Great Compromise’, under which the small states agreed to the creation of a strong National Government.
1981 Christian Sci. Monitor 2 Oct. (Midwestern ed.) 23/4 The Supreme Court's ‘one man, one vote’ decisions of the 1960s eliminated the worst form of gerrymandering malapportionment.
1993 Newsday (N.Y.) 7 June (Nassau ed.) (Viewpoints) 34/3 Cuomo and the Legislature must find a way to end this grotesque malapportionment. The Second Department's 6,000-case backlog is an affront to justice.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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