Frank Carson Quotes

In England, a Majority of Citizens does not elect the Majority of Representatives.

Divide the Continent into four Divisions, out of which a certain number of persons should be nominated, and out of that nomination to appoint a Senate

I enjoyed Parliament being a proper elected MP.

I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action.

In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.

You want to represent the country and you want elected officials that are representative of the country.

The principle is that every member needs to represent their district.

Proportional representation, I think, is fundamentally counter-democratic.

There once was a time when people chose their congressmen. Now congressmen choose their people.

Any of us who wants to go to Parliament must have that responsibility to represent the people who voted us in.

Many Americans do not realize that we could institute proportional representation for most elections in the U.S. without amending the Constitution. In helping to educate the public about the potential for voting system reform, CVD can play a central role in a pro-democracy movement right here in America!

Did I end up finding a little blue pill to cure America's electoral dysfunction? Unfortunately, it's not that simple.

The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take.

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.

A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom.

In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

There are different ways to get responsive government leaders but one of the more effective ways is to have them democratically elected.

How … can one person be given twice or ten times the voting power of another person ... merely because he lives in a rural area.

The Senate of the United States has been both extravagantly praised and unreasonably disparaged, according to the predisposition and temper of its various critics…. The truth is, in this case as in so many others, something quite commonplace and practical. The Senate is just what the mode of its election and the conditions of public life in this country make it.

Voters do not decide issues. They decide who will decide issues.

If a member of Congress doesn’t pay attention to process of reapportionment as the result of the census, he ends up being called “former Congressman.”