Since Congress passed the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, power in the republic has become centralized. When power in a republic becomes too centralized, it should be divided, separated, and layered. Below, I propose a plan that does just that. It shares power with more of the population and extends leadership opportunities for different regions.
Not convinced this plan is "right" or even workable. But it does address many of the issues resulting form a static legislature, and does so in creative ways. This piece gives the reader much to think about. Kudos.
Two comments. First, feel free to post this in our forum also, maybe here: https://forum.thirty-thousand.org/viewforum.php?f=27 There may not be much traffic there, but our site is well embedded in the search engines, so it may make it more discoverable over time. (You could also link back to this posting.) Second, I had the same thought about a distributed national legislature, but not as detailed as what you outlined. I then shifted to the model where most of the legislators work virtually from their home districts as explained here: https://thirty-thousand.org/the-house-of-representatives-is-scalable/ Please read that.
Not convinced this plan is "right" or even workable. But it does address many of the issues resulting form a static legislature, and does so in creative ways. This piece gives the reader much to think about. Kudos.
Two comments. First, feel free to post this in our forum also, maybe here: https://forum.thirty-thousand.org/viewforum.php?f=27 There may not be much traffic there, but our site is well embedded in the search engines, so it may make it more discoverable over time. (You could also link back to this posting.) Second, I had the same thought about a distributed national legislature, but not as detailed as what you outlined. I then shifted to the model where most of the legislators work virtually from their home districts as explained here: https://thirty-thousand.org/the-house-of-representatives-is-scalable/ Please read that.
Curious where the cutoff between east and central in the Ohio Valley is because most of the valley don't like the East Coast.