Which of these would likely be a problem if the number of legislators in the Texas House were reduced?

a. Texas's physical size would require that legislators represent larger geographic areas
b. As the population and geographic size of districts continued to grow, citizens would increasingly lose contact with their representatives.
c. People would protest such a change, as it would go against years of Texas tradition.
d. Citizens would object, as they prefer to represented by someone from a small enough geographic and population area to understand the needs of the people of the district.
e. All of these would likely be problems.


e

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