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I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. but i don't favor direct democracy. we're busy. we have lives. there is reddit. who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time?
-Lawrence Lessig
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Lawrence Lessig
I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. but i don't favor direct democracy. we're busy. we have lives. there is reddit. who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time?
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