House of Representatives rules

[Leinad]

Great job with this, Windjammer!

[Leinad]

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?

Now, with regards to my own opinion, I see both points, but as of now I'm leaning towards Yankee's purely due to the novelty factor. It's more fun if we shake things up here and there, and make there be some differences between each chamber. If it doesn't work, of course, we could change it fairly easily.

[Leinad]

The one big thing we need to avoid however is the only allowing the majority to introduce bills- as we saw in the mock parliament (which had a partisan house) it kills off debate extremely quickly

I certainly agree with this. If we go the partisan route there definitely needs to be room for minority bills.

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?

So basically you justify the fact that 4 representatives would become inactive because 5 others *could* become more active. You really think it is going to be a great situation where only 5 representatives run the show? The body is composed by 9 representatives, so all of them should be active, not only 5 of them.

What? I'm not trying to justify anything, it was a valid question that you chose to not answer but instead react to nonexistent subtext.

I'm not really someone who states my opinion in the form of questions, I prefer to ask questions to help form my opinion.