[lbo-talk] Chazelle: Jury Duty Democracy

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Sun Aug 23 22:23:46 PDT 2009


On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Sandy Harris wrote:


> > I suggest that all US senators and representatives should be picked at
> > random among the adult population. Like jury duty. ... ... PS: I don't
> > recommend this for the US presidency because the variance is too high.
>
> What about for the Electoral College?

Indeed. One of the comments at the site suggested the solution would be to abolish the presidency and have the sortition-selected congress elect a prime minister from among their number.

Michael



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