Random Acts of Democracy
<p>At first blush this is a remarkable assertion. Our faith in democracy is shaken when elections dangle on the vagaries of a hanging chad. Or settled precedent is abruptly overturned by a partisan court. We are justifiably outraged when innocence depends on on zip code. Or the latest twitter meme.</p>
<p>As Blackstone argued in <a href="https://www.laits.utexas.edu/poltheory/blackstone/cle.int.s02.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>Commentaries on the Laws of England</em> </a>(1783), the law should be “ <em>permanent, uniform, and universal</em> “.</p>
<p><strong>But perhaps stability can emerge out of chance</strong>. After researching over 2500 years of democratic governing experience, scholars such as <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511659935" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Bernard Manin</a> observe that randomness, historically speaking, was the ultimate guarantor of fair elections and predictable lawmaking.</p>
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