SteveRogers
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« on: April 09, 2014, 12:23:53 AM » |
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I don't think the republican guarantee clause would prohibit a state from adopting such a system (and even if it might, the Supreme Court almost certainly wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole).
That being said, a parliamentary system sort of goes against the idea of separation of powers which is pretty highly valued in American culture. Plus, a lot of our other institutions such as single-member districts, direct primaries, fixed terms, and a pure two-party system, while certainly compatible with a parliamentary system, tend to point the other direction. It's hard to see what the benefit would be at the state level.
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