Helsinkian
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« on: July 28, 2016, 01:53:54 PM » |
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« edited: July 28, 2016, 01:58:47 PM by Helsinkian »
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Of the 50 state legislatures in the US, 49 are bicameral and only Nebraska's is unicameral.
The idea behind the two chambers of the federal Congress is, of course, to balance the need for representation of states (each state having equal representation in the Senate) and of the people at large with the "one person, one vote" principle (the number of representatives in the House depending on the state's population); thus the bicameral nature of Congress is easy to understand.
It is not the same with state legislatures, however. The existence of two chambers in the state legislatures only seems to bring expenditures and delays in legislating, with few benefits, as the state representatives and state senators are elected basically in a very similar manner.
My question is then: why haven't more states followed Nebraska's example and reformed their legislature into a unicameral body?
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