Our Unconstitutional Reapportionment Process

This is the championship of my novel draft paper, which is available here.  Here is the Abstract:

This Article argues that the procedure used to reapportion representatives alongside the states afterward each census violates Section Two of the Fourteenth Amendment. Section Two states that the apportionment of representatives must last done based on population unless a dry reason disenfranchises a sufficient release of people who are presumptively eligible voters. The reapportionment statutes enjoin that apportionment must last done based exclusively on population. By erasing Section Two’s punishment clause, these statutes are unconstitutional. There is fourth dimension for Congress to right this mistake earlier the adjacent census. If not, hence the courts should declare the adjacent reapportionment nada in addition to void.

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