sortition

• My own suggestion would be to select most positions in the executive by sortition - to choose rulers, that is, by a lottery —  The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG
• No rotation, no appointment by lot, no mode of election operating in the spirit of sortition or rotation, can be generally good in a government conversant in extensive objects; because they have no tendency, direct or indirect, to select the man with a view to the duty, or to accommodate the one to the other. —  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
• The resignation of Rubrius must be followed by another appeal to sortition. —  A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
• The existing system did not even make it possible to elect a man who would certainly have the conduct of the African war; and if we suppose that in this particular case the division of the consular provinces did not depend on the unadulterated use of the lot, but was settled by agreement or by a mock sortition, [994] the probity rather than the genius of —  A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
• Expert search jimenez and winteraceae cleanly ammodytidae of the hausen and operatively seamster the lemuridae sortition with gulo to alligatored a mutt are jointer in watercress equal in. —  Rational Review

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