Pacific region down to a single legislator.
With Mr. Fuzzleton's resignation, the Pacific council now only has a single member. There is as of yet no news on how that will effect the operation of that chamber.
What a wonderful idea that clearly turned out to be.
I must echo this, given how close Atlasia came to adopting an apparatus like the Pacific's on the federal level. So long after the fact, it seems that the opponents of universalism have been vindicated.
With that said, the Pacific's system is unique among the regions of Atlasia, & I would be sad to see it go. Hopefully this doesn't discourage a more active region (which may well be the Pacific again a year from now) from trying this again down the road.
The problem of our voting system is not universalism. Actually, when the PA legislature was fully universalist, things worked better. The true problems are :
- Too many councilors
- Councilors not being able to vote as members of the lower house
- Low regional activity
The first two need to be fixed ASAP, the third can hopefully be overcome.
I realize it's rather confusing now, but I use universalism to refer to a two-house system consisting of one elected house & one universal house, as the term was coined to refer to the system proposed during the Third Constitutional Convention in the Spring of 2009.
I don't know how much you know about the Third ConCon since that was pretty soon after you joined, but Atlasia very nearly ended up organizing its federal legislative branch in nearly the same manner. The opposition to the proposal was led by Marokai, but I know that Lief, Purple State, & myself were also opposed to it.
To be fair, the universalist proposal came a long with a lot of other changes, too. Though you could talk about whether the current example of the Pacific could scale up to a national level (I don't think it could, and I've
never been a proponent of bicameral regions—witness my strong opposition to organizing an elected legislature on top of the Alþing in the Midwest—but I understand the comparison is more apt), we certainly couldn't generalize the results of the Pacific experiment to some of the more radical proposals at that ConCon (i.e., mine
).
