House of Representatives rules

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

This looks excellent, Windjammer, thank-you!

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

And my point still stands. You will have constantly 4 representatives who will have their voice mattering much less than the 5 others----> inactivity

Not saying your point lacks merit, but would it be valid inverted? As in, if 4 Representatives being less powerful than others leads to less activity, would 5 Representatives being more powerful than others lead to more activity?

I don't think so. After all, there is a limit to how active one person can be - no matter how little social life you have, real life will eventually get in the way. I can also attest, having spent three terms in the Senate and three in the Mideast Assembly, that legislators do not become more active when their colleagues go MIA.

I'm okay with a partisan House leadership, but the minority party should not be sidelined in the process (fortunately, it doesn't seem like that's what you're proposing). As Blair pointed out, that arrangement pretty much killed South America. We should order the House on the model of the real life US House of Representatives: give the Speakership to the majority party, but allow everyone to propose bills and try to cobble together a coalition to pass their ideas.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

That is why I said before. You could give I don't five slots to the majority and two to the minority, or perhaps some other spread. Perhaps five and three. There are ways to make it work, so everyone is engaged and constantly pushing towards getting a majority, so that you balance involvement with differentiation in power so as to create that incentive to seek such constantly, producing more frequent competitive elections with more candidates.

How would the president fit into all of this? Would they use one of their party's slots, or would they get their own slot?