Reply #11: It is impossible to bribe all of us, it is always inherently a possibility with representatives. [View All]

[originalpckelly]

You assume that we would have that much to vote about. The US Congress must at least attempt to satisfy 300,000,000 people with a body of only 535 individuals. I think it stands to reason that they'd have to be in session fairly frequently.

State governments do not traditionally meet every day of the year (or the vast majority). That is because they have less work to do than the federal government, they must only respond to the concerns of a slice of 300,000,000 people, not the entire group.

I suggest that it should be possible to shrink the jurisdiction of a government until the level of work needed to make laws that are efficient and responsive is not significant enough in our daily lives to require representation.