I Guess He Can Be Right Once In A While
Jonah Goldberg argues for drastically expanding the size of the U.S. House. I may not go quite as far as he would near 5,000, but his arguments are entirely sound.
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Jonah Goldberg argues for drastically expanding the size of the U.S. House. I may not go quite as far as he would near 5,000, but his arguments are entirely sound.
Paint me speechless.
He’s echoing, as surprising as it is, these folk: http://www.thirty-thousand.org/
Perhaps we just need to invest in some serious decentralization of power. Heck, maybe even regional Congresses (e.g., a New England legislature, a Midwest legislature, and so on) to save us from the technical impossibilities of a House that big, the crushing tyranny that we have, and the potential troubles of the sort of decentralization that I want, but kinda fear.
I largely agree, but I still think it would be a good thing to cap the number per district at 500,000 or even slightly less.
There could be a million members in the House of Representatives and it would do nothing.
That would complicate voting from the rooftops…