Replace the House and the Senate with a unicameral legislature, return to three-member (cumulative voting) districts, reform redistricting, impose two-term limits on lawmakers, limit legislative leaders to one term, forbid “shell bills” (a trick that allows important bills to avoid close public scrutiny), require a seven-day public airing of all legislation, require an up-or-down vote on any bill upon the motion of at least 25 members (to keep legislative leaders from bottling up bills they don’t like) and overhaul the legislative pay-raise procedure.

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