This is bad evidence, because legislators cannot replace themselves
with whomever they like. In the US federal House of Representatives,
a legislator can resign at will, but the replacement is chosen by
a special election called by the executive authority of the state
from which the legislator was elected. Similar schemes are in effect
in most other polities with representative legislatures.
-- Eric Watt Forste ++ arkuat@pobox.com ++ http://www.pobox.com/~arkuat/ Q: What is the meaning of life? A: You're soaking in it!