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Originally Posted by Michele
Not without some corrective measure, otherwise you end up with an unmanageably large national legislative body.
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It does need an incentive for people to leave politics, or for voters to turn them out. For the Roman system, at least some of that appears to have been running out of money from the cost of paying for all your clients. Maybe if the voters turn you out, all your property (and the price of whatever you are worth as a slave) is divided among the ones who voted against you. Admittedly that's a stronger filter at the lowest levels.
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Also, imagine a local council which collectively underperforms: they are all corrupt and incompetent. They all get vetoed. That means the state legislature receives no members at all from that local district. How is that a good thing?
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How is it a bad one? District representation is over-rated anyway, and if a district could not manage to elect *anybody* competent locally, why would I want them electing somebody who was going to be governing me too?