democracy by the numbers

jean-christophe helary suzume at mx82.tiki.ne.jp
Sun Jul 14 17:07:00 PDT 2002


<Jordan Hayes>-----
> > more interesting, is the unchanging population in the house of
> > representataives -- unwavering at 435, though the population of the
> > country has nearly quadrupled.
>
> If we quadrupled the population of the House, would they make
> better decisions? Would you feel more 'represented' in some way?
>
> /jordan

depends on the way you quadruple it. plus quadrupling it would still not be enough for the democratic american model to be on an equal level with the undemocratic cuban model.

jc helary



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