Somehow people who make the "US House districts used to be smaller and therefore [no actual argument gets made here]" argument never seem to get around to arguing that the Pennsylvania State House should have 1600 districts.
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When Abraham Lincoln was elected to the Illinois State Legislature in ~1834, the state had around 300,000 people, and 91 State House members. Now Illinois has 12.8 million people, so I guess the Illinois House should have four thousand members, right? That's just common sense.
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Although the best example is Nevada: 1870: Nevada had 42,491 people and about 40-50 state House members. Today: Nevada has 3 million people and 42 state House members. So I guess the Nevada House should also have 3000-4000 members, right?
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I mostly think this would be funny. Is there a single legislative chamber in the world with thousands of members? I guess there's China's National People's Congress, that bastion of democratic responsiveness.
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Side note: I have occasionally wondered what percentage of China's population is a member of one of these "series of tiers of local assemblies", because, say, 20*20*20*3000 is already 24 million people.pic.twitter.com/ms8Q3e15ik
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(That is, if you have 3000 people, each of which is elected by a 20-person assembly, each of which is elected by a 20-person assembly, each of which is elected by a 20-person assembly, then that's 24 million people in one or another assembly, assuming they don't overlap.)
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Actually that'd be 25,263,000 people in total. So either I'm reading this wrong, or there's overlap one way or another, or a rather large % of China is in one of these bodies.
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Replying to @Pinboard
A. Yes it is. B. That's a pretty low guess since the article implies there are more than three tiers below national.
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Is this maybe just a way of saying all Party members are part of party assemblies?
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That would be my guess. You can't be a Party member without an ass of steel, to sit through endless meetings, rallies, and education sessions. But I'm going to /cc @bokane on this thread, because he might actually know the answer.
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Oh, interesting question. Will have to check on it, but: definitely not all Party members take part in these assemblies (there were 89.45 million Party members as of the end of 2016), and there's also definitely overlap between different levels of assembly.
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Membership in the NPC is also pretty much ceremonial for most delegates: it’s the Standing Committee that really matters. Good overview from a few years ago at http://ash.harvard.edu/files/ash/files/the_national_peoples_congress.pdf …
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