Proportional Representation

Can the House of Commons be the “express image of the nation” if the way it is elected leaves part of that nation unheard?

In the early twentieth century, representative government is spreading from Britain to countries around the globe, while fierce disputes at home test who truly speaks for the people. John H. Humphreys begins with the Commons’ growing claim to national authority—and the question that claim invites: do its methods of election make it a faithful portrait of public opinion, or distort the people’s will? As the struggle over Parliament’s power sharpens, the fairness of the vote becomes more than a technical matter; it bears on who gets heard and whose decisions prevail. What kind of election can make a legislature answer to the whole nation?

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