> You cannot have both, unless you're willing to have a legislature that has something like 5,000 people in it, which is not practical.
Worked for Athens.
"Estimates of the population of ancient Athens vary. During the 4th century BC, there might well have been some 250,000–300,000 people in Attica.[4] Citizen families could have amounted to 100,000 people and out of these some 30,000 would have been the adult male citizens entitled to vote in the assembly."
"There were three political bodies where citizens gathered in numbers running into the hundreds or thousands. These are the assembly (in some cases with a quorum of 6,000), the council of 500 (boule), and the courts (a minimum of 200 people, on some occasions up to 6,000)."
Worked for Athens.
"Estimates of the population of ancient Athens vary. During the 4th century BC, there might well have been some 250,000–300,000 people in Attica.[4] Citizen families could have amounted to 100,000 people and out of these some 30,000 would have been the adult male citizens entitled to vote in the assembly."
"There were three political bodies where citizens gathered in numbers running into the hundreds or thousands. These are the assembly (in some cases with a quorum of 6,000), the council of 500 (boule), and the courts (a minimum of 200 people, on some occasions up to 6,000)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democracy
Athenian eligible voters to boule ratio: 60-to-1
US eligible voters (233M) to 5000 representatives ratio: 46,600-to-1
US eligible voters to House + Senate (435+100) ratio: 435,514-to-1
Let's not discount the possibility.