Examples of using Sortition in English and their translations into Romanian
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With a parliament that uses sortition.
So… Athenians were afraid of sortition, like us, same thing, same fear.
We must step up and replace elections with sortition.
Years of designation by sortition the poor governed.
And now we have an answer:with a parliament that uses sortition.
But with sortition[this strong idea of Alain's is no longer implacable].
You were not even aware that sortition existed.
Sortition makes plausible the possibility that I may some day be the president of Athens.
You cannot keep the rest and replace sortition by election: it won't work.
So, with these here institutions, Athenians protected themselves against a"messy sortition".
It's the story of sortition, the story of the time where we lost this conception, this importance of sortition.
We could build asocial movement demanding change, which is what the Sortition Foundation is doing in the UK.
So, when you hear:"ok, sortition was fine with small groups, small cities, and would not work with bigger ones",[you can answer] the[exact].
And his description is so honest that we, who never hear about sortition, may think he's advocating.
Do not imagine that elections are replace by sortition, and that the power is left to elected representatives[like we leave it today]: not at all, it doesn't work like this.
And then, when it becomes impossible to patch over the cracks in the current system, we must step up and replace elections with sortition.
It's just the opposite:elections should be used for small sizes, and sortition would work better in a large scale system.
As long as I hadn't found sortition, I thought I could kill myself[with] this sentence because it was so true, it was[like] a trap: there was no escape.
I will come back to this, when we speak about jurymen and Tocquevilles" opinion on them, for he wrote great pages:He was a fierce defender… of sortition.
Representatives were weakened by designation by sortition-- weakened!-- which served as a guarantee to citizens that they would remain sovereign.
And there's a second book which I, also highly recommend… and even more,because I think it's the most important book on sortition and the political organisation of the country.
It means that we[use] sortition because we have AN OBJECTlVE to reach so, since we see that tere are disadvantages, we make the institutions that go with them.
We will get back to this when we talk about an objection which consists in saying:"yes, but sortition was fine because they were dealing with small sizes, whereas election is necessary because we[now are many]".
So, they chose sortition, because it's perfectly consistent: to obtain amateurism, to apply rotations(short and non renewable mandates), sortition IS NECESSARY!
However, there would be one major side effect:if we replaced elections with sortition and made our parliament truly representative of society, it would mean the end of politicians.
Citizens support mechanisms that place them at the heart of decision-making, such as participatory budgeting andcitizens' juries, and champion sortition as a means of developing an engaged and knowledgeable citizenry.
(All) these people, at the same time… continue to venerate elections like a sacred cow, the[so-called] universal suffrage, and continue to despise sortition orexpose it to public contempt… whereas 400 years ago,(200 years of sortition+ 200 years of elections), 400 years of contrary facts which show them they're wrong!
Montesquieu undeligned(I was talking about volunteering),that is was very important: according to him, sortition was not perfect, but it was MADE VlRTUOUS by complementary institutions which would correct the defaults.
