On May 13, 2011, at 2:31 PM, Mark Bennett wrote:
> It would be interesting to find out. Brian Martin, an Australian physicist
> and social scientist, has written quite a bit on "demarchy":
>
> http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/demarchy.html
>
> Juries are selected somewhat randomly, and, in my experience, they perform
> no worse than elective assemblies, and they are considerably less corrupt
"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."
- William F. Buckley, Jr.