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The probability of "endless bickering" is exactly why the two-house system works. You set up a rule: Proportional representation in one house and per-country representation in the other, and then you don't change the rule when some new tiny country is added.
by asdf on Sun Jul 19th, 2009 at 12:48:13 PM EST
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