Größe der Staatsversammlung pro Bundesstaat in den USA
Von Negative-Swan7993
Größe der Staatsversammlung pro Bundesstaat in den USA
Von Negative-Swan7993
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I feel like everybody in New Hampshire must know a legislator or someone who does personally.
NH has waay too many. It doesn’t matter if their compensation is basically nothing – it still costs extra money to have that many legislators.
Shouldn’t Arizona be in the list of lowest people per legislator? Wyoming has less people and Wyoming has more legislators according to this.
Unpopular opinion: More legislators per population is better because it makes it more difficult to gerrymander and for companies to bribe their way into influence
Also, is this counting both state house and state senate? Because if so, Nebraska’s number should come with a big asterisk given that they only have one legislative chamber, instead of the normal two.
This is also misleading because it doesn’t include a ratio of people to legislators. Wyoming looks low, but it has one legislator for every 6,300 people. Pennsylvania is one per 51k.
I think the New Hampshire model is the right one, especially in a lower house. Make it so that your legislator is someone from your neighborhood and someone you run into at the grocery store, kids soccer games, etc.
Rhode Island having 113 might be the nuttiest thing on here
I got to sit in a rep’s seat on the Missouri House floor today.
Another NH Win.
New Hampshire, WTF? How does anything get done?
We should do national redistricting. Put an even grid over the entire US. No state gets more than 4 reps and every state must be split among the two major parties and third parties and independents. So the reps will have nothing to do with geography of their state. It’ll basically create two senates. Then the senate will just be decided by popular vote. Same as president. We would never have red states or presidents again.
Worth doing this per capita, VT has half as many legislators as NH but when you look at the number per capita in the table it’s a lot closer and then it drops off real quick.
Lots of people giving NH love for the large # of legislators here. It is a nice thing to be familiar with your local reps, certainly helps to keep them honest. But there are some unforseen drawbacks as well.
Because there are so many legislators, NH can’t really afford to offer them any sort of compensation (I believe it’s $200 for the length of your term). It means the only people who can actually afford to represent their districts are people for whom money is no option, meaning either elderly retirees with time on their hands or the wealthy few.
As a result, sometimes it feels like the legislative branch doesn’t reflect the overall population. For example, every state around us (and Canada) have legalized marajuana except us. Legalization is popular among the public, but the elderly people in charge of writing our laws still see it as taboo, and so the status quo remains.
At the federal level there should be 1 representative per 500k population, and it should be at least 1 per 50k but 25k would be a better goal.
I fucking love how my state has more representatives and legislators than some nations