On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > > On Tue, 25 Mar 2014, Sean Hunt wrote: >> I am a big fan of the figurehead model of Speaker. > > I've been a fan like that for a long time, but was thinking during the > re-write: how many times has a figurehead Speaker done anything > Interesting, versus an elected officer with power? So I was looking > to have an elected office that was just basically power (votes). > I've actually been hoping for a controversial AI-3 issue in which I > was in the minority, so that the majority might consider turning me > out of office to get the proposal through. > > That job doesn't have to be named Speaker, either. Maybe the > figurehead is still Speaker, and a Prime Minister who is elected, and > actually has votes?
This has promise. Why don't we just leave the Speaker as elected, with an extra vote (given the activity level, basically anyone who wants can have an office, so in practice 2 vs 1 is the same as 4 vs 2), move judicial functions to a new office (maybe not the Clerk... the Arbitor or something. This would remove the connotation of impartiality that Murphy gave the Clerk). Then we can look at figurehead reform once it's a more compartmentalized thing, and once we have points on the line. (hooray compromise politics)
