A pillar of Athenian democracy was sortition: selecting officials at random among a large pool of valid candidates. It can be very effective at preventing tribalism and corruption.
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It feels like a simple yet brilliant idea, that has almost entirely disappeared from modern Western democracies (with the notable exception of jury duty).
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Imagine a country where the Senate is composed of 100 random people, serving for one year, selected among all citizen between 30 and 60 who have a law degree.
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The more randomness in your system, the less vulnerable it will be to attacks (reaching and maintaining power through bribes, propaganda, etc). Democracy design needs more security awareness
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François Chollet for the first President of Mars.
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Am 100% for this! But can some of that pool of candidates have science or engineering degrees, too?
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Ok, what about "Congress being 500 random citizen between 30 and 60 with any college degree, serving for 2 years"?
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Why a law degree? Seems unnecessary
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their job is to make laws
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Since you are a French reader, I would recommend reading “Le clan des Médicis” by Jacques Heers which illustrates the absolute rigging of such a system. Plus an amazing account on the Médicis early Florence.
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Why the law degree? Government by lawyers is part of the problem.
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Law is like source code for society. If your job is to make laws, you should be able to read and write legal code. That said, we could get away with only *some* of them having law degrees.
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Bro, have you ever met a lawyer?
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