Constitutional Amendment to Create a House of Representatives

[Colin]

There are just not enough people in Atlasia to have a House of Representatives without getting rid of certain other positions such as regional offices or taking away the provision against people holding multiple offices. You never say precisely how many Representatives there are but going by the number that was in the Third Constitution, which was 15, the number of officials would be 48 people including Regional Justices and Lt. Governors as well as the moderator and Deputy SoFA. Without those positions there would be 39 people in government. A total of 61 people voted in the last election. That would mean that in order for all offices to be filled 65% of the people who bothered to vote in the last election would have to be office holders. That would leave very few people who are actually able to be opponents for these various positions.

So, as I have said before, it would be impossible to have a House of Representatives without getting rid of some other position. The most likely candidate positions to be taken out of Atlasia are the regional positions. That would take the entire number of positions down to 34, which is 55% of the voting populace as calculated by those who showed up to vote in the last election. By, in turn, pruning, so to speak, the Senate via reducing district seats or making the Senate all elected from districts would reduce it further. That's the only way that I could see this working.

The reason I also suggested some form of party-list PR early in the debate concerning a House of Representatives, still a horrible name I would vote against anything that has the name House of Representatives in it, was that it would reduce the amount of people necessary to keep races competitive in comparison to single districts. You would only need 2-4 people to run on each party list for the entire country using a 15 seat lower house whereas you would need a much greater number if the House was elected in some district system akin to the Senate.

[Colin]

Well I'd be fine with the 100 people idea however the thought of having 100 people in Atlasia again is at best very far off.

[Colin]

Aye though I doubt this will ever be inacted if this article is put in place.

[Colin]

Aye

EDIT: Just to give all of you a good impression of my vote on this. I want the people to decide concerning this amendment. Personally I'm opposed for a variety of factors, the automatic approval if numbers go above 100 is rather troubling now that I look back on it and I still don't believe that a House of Representatives would work well in a regionally based system or without a parliamentary element involved. Also the name is horrid, maybe it is just my complete displeasure in the American system of government but the name is so dull and boring. But I consider that major changes such as this need to be decided by the will of the people.