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This is not as far-fetched as it would seem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition The ancient Greeks pretty much ap
by NoZebra120vClip 4y ago
This is not as far-fetched as it would seem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
The ancient Greeks pretty much appointed magistrates and others by lottery, and every citizen participated in a very direct democracy.
The Greeks saw this as a counter to oligarchy. I'm not sure that today's federal government is very far off from oligarchical tendencies.
- tengwar2 4y agoYou can't generalise about ancient Greeks like that. Every polis (city state) had its own constitution, and they were more radically different than any we have now. There were some poleis which used sortition, yes, but others had something more recognisable to our voting system. And of course there were the Spartans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartan_Constitution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartan_Constitution.