If you allow for proxy voting, then you might also allow for the possibility of the electors participating directly in the legislative process. They might use a system of proxy voting to initiate, draft and vote up their own bills.* For those bills, the ideal size of the -actual- legislature would probably be the size of the electorate (the max size), while that of the formal legislature could be reduced to one. A single elected executive could efficiently oversee the judicial review and promulgation of all elector-initiated bills.
In practice, most existing consitutional assemblies are probably competent to take on both roles - official and elector-initiated legislation - simultaneously. * A possible method is outlined here: http://zelea.com/project/votorola/d/theory.xht#action-norm -- Michael Allan Toronto, +1 416-699-9528 http://zelea.com/ Michael Rouse wrote: > If you were going to use a proxy-type voting system, you could make the > following rules: > > 1. A successful candidate must have votes greater than or equal to the > square root of the total number of ballots cast. > 2. The total number of successful candidate cannot be greater than the > fourth root of the total number of ballots cast (the square root of the > square root). > > In the 2008 election, 122,394,724 people voted for President. The first > rule would mean that to be seated in the legislature, a candidate would > need at least 11,064 votes, and the maximum number of legislators would > be 105. > > Of course, if you wanted to be closer to Warren's 250 limit, you could > take twice the fourth root (~210) or half of the cube root (~248). If > you were going to go the proxy (asset) route, there probably should be > some simple relation between the total votes cast, the minimum votes > needed to be elected, and the total number of legislators, without > fixing any single number in stone. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
