Otherwise, a wealth of polling suggests faith in American institutions is at or near historic lows, in business, the military, the police, medicine, the church, the Supreme Court and especially, Congress. They don’t have the opportunity to invite popular disdain by accruing personal benefit in the process, as so many politicians do. Jurors are chosen for a limited time, with limited writ, they do their jobs and then return to private life. It’s a simple idea that appeals to common sense.
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I’ve been looking at polls about Americans’ woeful and plunging faith in our institutions and, in support of the idea of sortition, faith in the idea of trial by jury ranks near the top. Both the ancient Greeks and some cities in Renaissance Italy used it to select major political officials, and we use it today when we pick juries. It’s an idea called sortition, a system of choosing citizens randomly to deliberate on a particular issue. And his idea – that at governance, the public at large outperforms politicians – might well be right.
His broader contention remains as familiar today as sixty years ago, that the governing classes are arrogant, privileged and out of touch with the common people. In his trolling Buckley would fit right in today as a 2023 anti-woke MAGA agitator. Speaking in 1961, he meant to troll the Ivy League and its liberal bias. Buckley asserted that for governance, he would trust the first two hundred people in the phone book over elected politicians.
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Slayton Courthouse for a couple of weeks down there and everybody with a supporting role in presenting the Donald Trump drama, TV techs, cops, drivers, caterers, couriers and a few protesters deserved hazardous duty pay for managing in the 100 degree-plus daily heat. Woodruff personified Coca-Cola) you are now in the heart of downtown, and continue beyond an iconic neon Coca-Cola sign and through the disused entrance to what has been, on and off again, Underground Atlanta.Īfter that barriers were up, roads were shut and cadres of traffic cops moved about. Once that’s over you forge alongside Woodruff Park (for sixty years Robert W. There’s a dodgy block or two and then a positively anti-human overpass where noise, grit and gridlock coalesce over a squeezed together forced marriage between interstates 75 and 85. To walk from my part of town, Atlanta’s big busy Midtown, to the sprawling government complex downtown, is to walk “right down Peachtree,” as much loved Atlanta Braves baseball announcer Ernie Johnson used to say when describing a pitch right down the middle.įrom Midtown you walk Atlanta’s main street a couple of miles south. Peoples’ opinions diverge, don’t they, but until the Trump indictments were actually handed up August 14, everybody at least agreed something important was coming and that it would shape events. I walked downtown a couple of weeks ago when things were going on down there that you wouldn’t call festive, August is too hot for festive, but they were purposeful, and expectations ran high. I live in Atlanta, where quite a bit of national politics has happened in those two buildings these last few weeks. This month’s travel column includes suspiciously little travel – just two short walks, to a courthouse and a jailhouse.
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