Ordinary citizens? Are you crazy?

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Yoram Gat

Harvard Magazine has an article about Lawrence Lessig’s reform proposals. Lessig has been promoting his proposal for “democracy vouchers”, but it turns out that he has another proposal to make – a Constitutional Convention selected by sortition:

[Lessig] writes: “I recognize that of all the insanity strewn throughout this book, this will strike readers as the most extreme. Ordinary citizens? Are you crazy? Proposing amendments to our Constitution? When two-thirds of Americans can’t even identify what the Bill of Rights is?”

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4 Responses

  1. jorge's avatar
    jorge, on June 19, 2012 at 5:52 pm said:

    Let’s welcome this influential voice to the diverse chorus of sortitionists all around the globe ;-)

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  2. Yoram Gat's avatar
    Yoram Gat, on June 19, 2012 at 6:34 pm said:

    Yes. I wrote to him to urge him to make sortition more central to his reform proposals.

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  3. Yoram Gat's avatar
    Yoram Gat, on November 20, 2012 at 8:45 pm said:

    Lessig tweeted recently:

    #aMemeYouMustKnow: sortition

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  4. 2012 review – sortition-related events « Equality by lot, on December 29, 2012 at 7:40 pm said:

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