Should The United States us Proportional Representation?

Question

Should the Senate and Congress be elected by PR with the President being the leader of the majority party or the main party in coaliton?
(following on from my question about 2 party system) Ive only read a bit about this but at first glance it would seem that this would allow:
1. a much wider spectrum of views to be represented
2. a more accurate representation of voters opinions(eg if 10% of voter vote for one party they will gain 10% of seats)
3. cause the parties to look at issues in every district and not just focus on swing states/districts (eg texas democrats get a voice)
4. for a more balanced government which actually acts on the opinions of the majority from a more central and inclusive viewpoint.

yes i understand i forgot an e in the question

Answer 1

Proportional representation is easily possible, if we eliminate primaries -- or better yet eliminate political parties. Neither of which are constitutionally required.

I also agree with the concept of having more equal distribution of representatives, and possibly increasing the total number in Congress. The problem is, fixing the electoral process first.

Right now, we have one Representative per 690,000 people. The constitution (Article I Section 2) imposes a max of one per 30,000. That would still allow for over 20x the number we currently have.

The other problem is because of the way districting works, only the majority per district actually gets to select the representative. Same problem with the way most states implement the electoral college. The minority votes, even if 48% of the total, simply don't count.

And nothing in the constitution requires congressional districts. It would be just as valid to allocate the representatives equally across the state, based on percentage vote. And that would certainly allow for much greater representation. Such measures, called cumulative or distributed voting, are often used to ensure more accurate representations of minority voters.

Answer 2

States can come to a decision the thank you to divide their legislative branches. yet you could %. any national government everywhere interior the international. Canada, Israel, japan, etc that has multiparty representation and it gets worse than ours each and every so often. is it honest that the social gathering that gets the main votes no longer administration the legislature because of the fact all the different events formed a coalition between themselves and carry a majority? In US politics, this might, possibly be a recipe for disaster for people who surely have self belief that the social gathering with the main votes rules and does something it desires to.

Answer 3

have we added more seats to government or have we had the same number for to long .
SEEMS each rep should represent 100,000 people who all chip in a dollar to pay him .THEN when we are done he is retired without any benefits as he represents us for only a short time .

Answer 4

LOOK LEAVE THE CONSTITUTION ALONE