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Founder of AssembleAmerica.org. Using Citizen Assemblies to put power in the hands of everyday people. Join a movement for Democracy by Assembly! #DxA
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Gonna further wager that if you used lotteries to pick everyday people from around the world to populate the UN, and made them equals inside the chamber, they’d resolve most global conflicts peacefully. #Sortition #CitizensAssembly #DemocracyByAssembly #Democracy

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Gonna go out on a limb here: an assembly of everyday American citizens—picked by lottery, given the actual evidence and full range of options, and time to deliberate toward rough consensus—would not have decided to start a war with Iran. #Sortition #CitizensAssembly #DemocracyByAssembly #DxA

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Citizens Assemblies could legally constrain delegates at an Article V (some say "constitutional") convention, building democratic accountability into the amending process. So incredibly happy this truth is finally breaking through. Excellent article in the Fulcrum. buff.ly/xuqihGo

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Honored to write this piece for @thefulcrum-us.bsky.social, with Roshan Bliss of the NCDD

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Ian Troesoyer on why it's time to upgrade the Constitution. #Democracy #DemocracyByAssembly #DxA #CitizensAssembly #Sortition #PeoplesConvention

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Incisive post from @paul-melman.bsky.social: "Only by systematically building up our civilizational coordination capacity can we achieve the solarpunk yogurt commercial utopia we dream of." Amen! #Democracy #DemocracyByAssembly #DxA #CitizensAssembly #Sortition #AI #AGI

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Fascinating new post from @paul-melman.bsky.social about the way citizen assemblies can help government "see" reality better. #DemocracyByAssembly #DxA #PeoplesConvention #Sortition #Democracy

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The papal #conclave would be so much easier and free of factionalism if they used #sortition. Not to mention divinely inspired: “Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles.” www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...

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With Terry Bouricius coming out with a new book, now’s a good time to revisit my conversation with him in 2023.

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America needs to build a new house of our republic. Athenian democracy shows us how to do it. #CitizensAssembly #Sortition #DemocracyByAssembly

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