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Then do away with jury duty.
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That's being talked about for technically complex cases, such as some frauds.
Adjudicating on legislation is closer to that. Plus the whole idea fails to take into account the things involved in managing any large enterprise - the years of lobbying and work involved to get issues onto the table, initiatives sponsored to look for solutions, budgeting for those solutions against a whole bunch of competing priorties, managing the complex interrelationship between different policies and the instruments used to enact them.
It couldn't work. Not a chance.
At best you'd have to narrow down on the bit the juries operated on to such an extent that they would hold no power.
In any case, I think the problem will be taken out of our hands. I think about 20 or 30 years from now the pressures from global warming issues, demographic problems, geo-political tensions, declining resources, and terrorism will cause a swing to a much more authoritarian mode of government.
The class of 68 dropped the ball. We're in unprecedented territory in some issues, and the auspices ain't good. The genie can't go back in the bottle. Democracy in it's current state cannot fix it's own problems. When evolution fails, revolution is always round the corner. We're in our wiemar era right now.