Interactive representation

[3] In 1912, the People's Power League, led by William S. U'Ren,[4] proposed an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to allow each legislator to cast a number of votes equal to the number of votes he received in the last election.

It also would have abolished the Oregon Senate and placed the state's legislative power in a single assembly of sixty members serving four-year terms.

The Governor of Oregon and his defeated rivals would have been ex officio members of the Assembly and allowed to cast as many votes as his unsuccessful party candidates had received in the previous election.

"[7] An interactive representation scheme was proposed in Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress: Suppose instead of election a man were qualified for office by petition signed by four thousand citizens.

and thereby avoid the chronic sickness of representative government, the disgruntled minority which feels— correctly!— that it has been disenfranchised.