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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-10 12:36 PM
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Why have state legislative assembly members based on neighborhoods?
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Edited on Sat Apr-10-10 12:37 PM by Boojatta
Why not elect members to be officially associated with a given function of government or a given kind of law? For example, one function of government is to manage the formal education system and one kind of law is about roads and motor vehicles.

If voting in a state assembly on a particular issue were done only by representatives whose areas of responsibility include that issue, then it would be possible to make legislative progress on some matter of state level responsibility without needing to get authorization from a majority in a state assembly.

It would be sufficient that voting members of the general public who take an interest in some function of government or kind of law have elected members to handle that function of government or kind of law and that whatever kind of majority of those elected members that is required in a given vote within the assembly is actually achieved in the assembly.
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