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« Reply #25 on: March 19, 2014, 03:15:40 AM »

I would actually love for my guys' house to get some sort of size increase, though I honestly have no idea where on the property we'd fit it. Maybe it's time to annex our neighbors...
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« Reply #26 on: March 19, 2014, 04:20:06 AM »

I would actually love for my guys' house to get some sort of size increase, though I honestly have no idea where on the property we'd fit it. Maybe it's time to annex our neighbors...

You have any Russian blood in your ancestry? Wink
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« Reply #27 on: March 19, 2014, 04:36:39 AM »

I'm not sure if it'd led to "better" representation. But I think it should be increased primarily to reduce malapportionment and other issues with one-district states. The Wyoming rule (basing the district size on the least populous state) would be reasonable.
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« Reply #28 on: March 19, 2014, 04:06:09 PM »

Have a system like the German Bundestag with about 750 seats directly elected and 250 seats elected proportionally.

How would party lists work in during primaries?

I think STV would work more for America than MPP... It seems that American politics is more candidate based, less party based
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« Reply #29 on: March 19, 2014, 04:12:46 PM »

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« Reply #30 on: March 19, 2014, 04:45:33 PM »

Double it in size, halve their pay to save the difference and I think it could work.

Very good idea.

x JulioMadrid

That goes after the wrong problem. We should go after congressional pensions, which are insane.
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« Reply #31 on: March 22, 2014, 08:14:13 AM »

Most definitely. As I've said before, I'd like to at least see the Wyoming rule in place, but the ideal size for the House would be under the cube root rule. It's a reasonable balance between membership and population that'd make it only slightly larger than the British House of Commons (despite the fact that the US has about five times the population than the UK).
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