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kleinbl00  ·  1519 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Original Sin of the Constitutional Congress

Doesn't fuckin' matter. It started at 30,000 then became 30-50,000. Edit it and pass it.

Amusing that the entire section has been a mild edit war since August.





goobster  ·  1519 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm wondering what it would be like to try and get ~7500 Representatives to vote on a bill...?

"Do we have a quorum?"

"No, only 2600 members showed up to vote on the measure. The rest are caught in traffic..."

Maybe Estonia can come over and help us set up their eGovernment system that works so well...

kleinbl00  ·  1519 days ago  ·  link  ·  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legislatures_by_number_of_members

3,000 members in China's lower house.

We've been doing government-by-zoom for six months now. We can't pretend the shit doesn't work. By the way, if you sort that list by population-to-seat, the bottom of the list is China-Bangladesh-EU-US-India.