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*[[Terry Bouricius]], a former Vermont legislator and political scientist, proposes in a journal article [http://www.publicdeliberation.net/jpd/vol9/iss1/art11/ "Democracy Through Multi-body Sortition: Athenian Lessons for the Modern Day"] how a democracy could function better without elections, through the use of many randomly selected bodies, each with a defined role.<ref name=":0">[http://www.publicdeliberation.net/jpd/vol9/iss1/art11/ "Democracy Through Multi-Body Sortition" by Terrill G. Bouricius<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
*Graham Kirby proposed using sortition to reform the [[UK]] [[House of Lords]] in [[Disclaimer Magazine]]. <ref>http://www.disclaimermag.com/politics/let-the-people-wear-ermine-if-we-are-to-abolish-the-house-of-lords-2792</ref>
*In his 2017 presidential election platform, French politician [[Jean-Luc Mélenchon]] of [[la France insoumise]] lays out a proposal for a sixth republic. The upper house of this republic would be formed through national sortition. Additionally, the [[constituent assembly]] to create this republic would have 50% of its members chosen in this way, with the remainder being elected.{{citation needed}}
====Sortition to decide the franchise====
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