democracy by the numbers

Timothy Francis-Wright twright at ziplink.net
Sun Jul 14 12:52:10 PDT 2002


Jordan Hayes wrote:


> If we quadrupled the population of the House, would they make
> better decisions? Would you feel more 'represented' in some way?

Alas, (legislative) size, and not what one does with it, is not all that matters. Otherwise, I would have moved to New Hampshire--400 representatives in the House; 1,259,181 residents in the state--long ago.

--Tim Francis-Wright

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/33000.html http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/default.html



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