Smaller districts keep the government close to the people and allow for outsider candidates to level the playing field against incumbents.
Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives attend a session at the state Capitol in Harrisburg in June. The state has the largest full-time state legislature in the country, and that's a good thing, writes Kyle Sammin.With 203 House members and 50 senators, Pennsylvania has the largest full-time state legislature in the country. The commonwealth’s outlier status has inspiredBut critics are wrong: Pennsylvania’s supersized legislature is good for the people.
The most important positive is that smaller districts keep the government close to the people. This idea goes back to the nation’s founding — a time when, admittedly, there were a lot fewer Americans andIn the early years of the republic, the federal House had one representative for every 30,000 people.
Outsider candidates stand little chance of connecting with the voters in a district that requires mass media spending to do so. That may be fine for an office like governor or president — we don’t really want every candidate to run for the top spot right away. But a state House is — or should be — the entry point for a citizen-legislator, a local leader who wants to make a difference without having to join up with a political machine and all its baggage.
after falling just short of victory in 2014. He did it by connecting directly with the people in a way the incumbent had long since stopped bothering to do.
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