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Framed: America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance Framed: America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance by Sanford Levinson
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“There is nothing wrong with someone who receives less than a majority of the vote being elected a representative. This is almost by definition the result in a system of proportional representation that elects multiple representatives from the same geographical unit and adopts voting rules that allow numerical minorities without the voting clout ever to win a race in a single-member district to elect a favorite in a multimember district. The designof multi-member institutions, like legislatures, offers many possibilities for creativity if one’s desire is to maximize the number of people who feel some sense of genuine linkage with their putative “representatives.”
Sanford Levinson, Framed: America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance