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Re:Supreme Court guts agency power in seismic Chevron ruling by Nasrudith on Friday June 28, 2024 @07:48PM (#40826596)
The main problem with that approach is it makes rigging the 'elections' trivial when probabilistically every result is equally as plausible as another.
Re:Supreme Court guts agency power in seismic Chevron ruling by anigbrowl on Saturday June 29, 2024 @12:04AM (#40827816)
The idea of selecting legislators in a similar manner to jury service is how democracy originally used to be done, and it has a lot going for it in my view.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

Re:Supreme Court guts agency power in seismic Chevron ruling by mp05 on Saturday June 29, 2024 @12:36PM (#40831737)
I'd suggest shrinking the pool somewhat, perhaps by selecting from people involved in state-level politics already? This idea that any random person is fit to be a representative is bonkers to me.

The House should be filled with the Common Man, if you will, but I'm certain the authors were envisioning a parvenu bootstrapper like Ben Franklin or a Paul Revere.

But the Senate should change too--repeal the 17th amendment and bring the election of US Senators back to the state legislative bodies. It's a key element that made us a Republic and I'm failing to see how we can even refer to ourselves as such since 1913. I find it grating when people say "our democracy" because it is true now, but shouldn't be.