Posted on 05/27/2015 4:08:06 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
A senate, a house of representatives, majority and minority caucuses and partisanship leadership structures — these are some of the common features of state legislatures across the country.
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Candidates for the Legislature run in open primaries without party affiliations listed on the ballot. Legislative officers and committee chairs are elected by members themselves instead of appointed by partisan caucus leaders, and minority party members still do get elected to serve as committee chairs. O’Donnell says that policy debates frequently tend to be less partisan in tone because of the unique nature of the Nebraska Unicameral and that final decisions are usually made on the merits of an issue rather than on the basis of political considerations alone. Seventy-four years after its inception, the Nebraska Unicameral remains one-of-a-kind among U.S. state legislatures. O’Donnell says that other states have frequently visited Nebraska over the years to study the workings of the Unicameral, but so far at least, no other state has followed Nebraska’s lead.
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I assume that even if parties are not listed, Nebraskans still know which party candidates belong to.
Yep, most are R’s.
I used to live in Nebraska. In school we visited the Capital building and learned all about the system. I really think that more states with small populations would run better under a Unicameral system.
Doesn’t this just lead to the whole state basically being ran by Omaha and Lincoln?
As we see from this death penalty abolition, it makes it easier to pass crap.
Moreso than the unicameral thing though is the horrid non-partisan elections, a RINOs dream.
All state legislative districts in all states are determined by population, so in so far as major cities voting influence is concerned, it’s not effected by the number of legislative chambers.
Some states had upper houses that were geography based, the Supreme Court outlawed it.
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