Georgetown Center for the Constitution

Allocation of Representatives

The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.

Article I

Section 2

Clause 6

Robert G. Natelson, A Reminder: The Constitutional Values of Sympathy and Independence, 91 Ky. L. Rev. 353 (2002).

Arguing that the values of “sympathy” and “independence” were central to the design and structure of the Constitution.
David P. Currie, The Constitution in Congress: The Second Congress, 1791-1793, 90 Nw. U. L. Rev. 606 (1996).

Discussing debates in the Second Congress about allocation of seats according to the Census.