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A citizen legislature by Callenbach, Ernest; Phillips, Michael, 1938-Publication date 1985 Topics Representative government and representation, Political ...
A citizen legislature is a legislative chamber made up primarily of citizens who have a full-time occupation besides being a legislator. Such citizen legislatures can be found on the state level, as in some U.S. states, or on the national level as in Switzerland.
28 de jul. de 2021 · To measure the capacity of legislatures, it's important to consider the amount of time legislators spend on the job, the amount they are compensated and the size of the legislature's staff. NCSL has grouped the 50 state legislatures into three major categories: Green, Gray and Gold-and for those who want to know more, NCSL has provided some shading within those categories.
- The Founders’ Ideal: The Legislature as A Transcript of The People
- The Present Electoral System Is Unrepresentative and Promotes Corruption
- The Democracy of Athens Offers A Better Model: Selection by Lottery
- A Cross-Section of The People Would Be Selected
- The Representative House Would Be at Least as Competent as The Present House
- Practical Implementation Is Possible Beginning on The State Level
At the birth of the American republic, as James Madison noted, members of the constitutional convention "wished for vigor in the government, but wished that vigorous authority to flow immediately from the legitimate source of all authority. The government ought to possess not only, first, the force, but secondly, the mind or sense of the people at ...
Our present legislatures certainly cannot be described in terms of a "transcript of the whole society"; by that test they are hopelessly unrepresentative. Women, to take the most striking disparity first, constitute 51% of the adult population but comprise only 4.8% of the present House of Representatives. Blacks, 12% of the population, comprise on...
It happens that there is an easy and even inexpensive way to choose representatives for a legislative body so that they would in fact be a "transcript" of the whole society: sortition, or selection by lottery, which was used by the Athenians to choose representatives for two centuries. The time has come to examine this type of direct representation...
A Representative House would be astonishingly different from its predecessors. Upon entering the House chamber you would see at work a body whose members comprise more than 50% women and some 12% blacks, 6% Hispanics, and 1% persons of other races. Because of their dress and manner, your overwhelming impression would be of middle- and working-class...
The objection may be raised that a Representative House would not be competent to deal with the complex issues of modern government. This objection reflects the feeling, which is widespread although it may not be founded in reality, that our rulers are (or at any rate should be) "better than us" – a feeling which is a major factor in the acquiescen...
Despite the novelty of the direct-representation idea at present, and the surprise that it naturally occasions when people first encounter it, we believe that like women’s suffrage, legalized abortion, no-smoking sections in planes and restaurants, or mandatory recycling of cans and bottles it can gradually gain credibility – especially through tri...
A citizen legislature: Meets for a short period of time and legislators have other jobs outside of their state duties. Therefore, they can serve the constituents well because they must return to live under the laws he or she implements. A professional legislature: Meets for most of the year and pays the legislators as full-time employees.
6 de feb. de 2012 · vermont state legislature. Having a part-time citizen legislature - rather than a full time professional one - is one of the hallmarks of Vermont politics and culture. We look at the pros and cons of having citizen lawmakers - and how it affects the atmosphere at the Statehouse.
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