Editing Legislature (section)

==Size==
{{Main|List of legislatures by number of members}}
Legislatures vary widely in their size. Among [[List of legislatures by number of members|national legislatures]], China's [[National People's Congress]] is the largest with 2,980 members,<ref name="IPU">{{cite web |title=IPU PARLINE database: "General information" module |url=http://archive.ipu.org/parline-e/mod-general.asp |website=IPU Parline Database |publisher=International Parliamentary Union |access-date=30 April 2019 |archive-date=6 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170806150648/http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/mod-general.asp |url-status=live }}</ref> while [[Vatican City]]'s [[Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State|Pontifical Commission]] is the smallest with 7.<ref name="Vatican size">{{cite web |title=Vatican City State |url=http://www.vaticanstate.va/content/vaticanstate/en/stato-e-governo/struttura-del-governatorato/organigramma/stato-citta-del-vaticano.html |publisher=Vatican City State |access-date=30 April 2019 |archive-date=25 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125161949/http://www.vaticanstate.va/content/vaticanstate/en/stato-e-governo/struttura-del-governatorato/organigramma/stato-citta-del-vaticano.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Neither legislature is democratically elected: The Pontifical Commission members are appointed by the Pope and the [[National People's Congress]] is [[Indirect election|indirectly elected]] within the context of a [[one-party state]].<ref name="IPU" /><ref name="vatican">{{cite web |author1=Pope John Paul II |author-link1=Pope John Paul II |title=Fundamental Law of Vatican City State |url=http://www.vaticanstate.va/NR/rdonlyres/3F574885-EAD5-47E9-A547-C3717005E861/2522/FundamentalLaw1.pdf |publisher=Vatican City State |access-date=30 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226203911/http://www.vaticanstate.va/NR/rdonlyres/3F574885-EAD5-47E9-A547-C3717005E861/2522/FundamentalLaw1.pdf |archive-date=26 February 2008 |date=26 November 2000}}</ref>

Legislature size is a trade off between efficiency and representation; the smaller the legislature, the more efficiently it can operate, but the larger the legislature, the better it can represent the political diversity of its constituents. Comparative analysis of national legislatures has found that size of a country's [[lower house]] tends to be proportional to the [[cube root]] of its [[population]]; that is, the size of the lower house tends to increase along with population, but much more slowly.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Frederick|first=Brian|date=December 2009|title=Not Quite a Full House: The Case for Enlarging the House of Representatives|url=http://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1257&context=br_rev|journal=Bridgewater Review|access-date=15 May 2016|archive-date=28 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200428223222/https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1257&context=br_rev|url-status=live}}</ref>