here's an idea. Find out how many bills a typical legislator writes that make it to a floor vote. If this number if below 1, then the legislature is too large. (Course, there are bullshit do-nothing bills galore. Some way need to be found to exclude them.)
If a legislature is to debate each substantive bill for 1 day, that means there can be at most 365 substantive bills per year. Actually thanks to weekends, vacations, etc, more like 250. That means, if there are any more than 250 congressmen, then at least one of them will be unable to write a substantive bill each year. So I conclude legislature size ought to be capped at 250 or less. -- Warren D. Smith http://RangeVoting.org <-- add your endorsement (by clicking "endorse" as 1st step) and math.temple.edu/~wds/homepage/works.html ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
