The U.K. House of Commons in the 1800s for example was a famous refuge for some of the most notorious scalawags, ne’re-do-wells and debt-laden deadbeats looking to use the privileges afforded by their new political office to avoid or forestall prosecution by the law or by their many frustrated creditors.
We need to at least double the number of members of our federal House of Representatives. (The Chevron Doctrine having now been struck down by SCOTUS, the federal legislature is no longer going to be permitted by the federal judiciary to perform quasi-legislative functions. The quantity of legislative committee work needs to increase, bigly, as does the level of fine detail of regulatory schemes passed by Congress, the same now no longer being allowed to be passed off to unelected bureaucrats.)
As we increase the size of Congress by amending COTUS, don’t look for the raw material fed into the representative-minting process to improve in quality anytime soon!
YES you make a good point. They capped the number of members of Congress, it’s meant to be 4-5 x as big
Like in NH sort of thing.
But they capped it and it’s a lot easier to bribe a small number.
Congress should have thousands of members now and they should be unpaid public servants