In Terry Bouricius's sortition framework, statistically representative Policy Juries vote on whether draft bills proposed by Review Panels become legally binding law

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In October 2020, Utah Senator Mike Lee criticized rank democracy, asserting that the objective of governance is human flourishing rather than democracy itself

Democratic political equality requires threshold process rights among citizens, including voting rights and freedom of speech

Complex regulatory regimes lacking popular political consent face stability risks when distributing economic burdens and gains

Democracy is defined by Jedediah Purdy as a decision process of majority rule among political equals

Technocratic governance removes distributive decisions and core value judgments from deliberate collective popular choice

Shunting value-laden political decisions to expert institutions subjects those bodies to intense partisan pressure and conflict

Political questions are collective decisions that establish the fundamental legal terms of shared societal life

Aristotle characterized democratic government appointments as functioning by lottery and oligarchic appointments as functioning by election

In 1787, James Madison wrote that representative appointments are sought from ambition, personal interest, and the public good, with ambition and personal interest proving most prevalent

Terry Bouricius proposes a multi-body governance model by sortition consisting of Agenda Councils, Review Panels, Policy Juries, and Rules and Oversight Councils

In Terry Bouricius's sortition framework, Rules and Oversight Councils chosen by lottery establish operational rules, speaking limits, and compensation for all participating governing bodies

Following the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland organized a 950-person randomly selected National Assembly to draft principles for a new national constitution

In Terry Bouricius's sortition framework, Review Panels draft proposed bills based on Agenda Council priorities but lack the authority to enact them into law

Zbigniew Brzezinski designated Ukraine as a geopolitical pivot on the American strategic chessboard in his book The Grand Chessboard

Zbigniew Brzezinski proposed in the 1990s that Russia be organized into a confederation of European, Siberian, and Far Eastern republics

In modern international politics, ideological battles occur within individual nations between illiberal populist nationalists and liberal democrats

In the book Democracy and Political Ignorance, legal scholar Ilya Somin argues that voter ignorance and irrationality are unavoidable features of democracy

In the book Against Democracy, Jason Brennan argues that most Americans are politically uninformed hobbits or tribal hooligans

The Democratic foreign policy doctrine is to prevent and deter war through military, economic, and political strength

The Democratic foreign policy doctrine states that wars of choice erode the U.S.'s strategic position and are costly to American lives and finances