Your “select 1,000 voters at random, give them time to do research. Only they vote” system made me think of how Venice used to elect a doge. It was madness! Basically they introduced N layers of “this group of people appoint a larger group, that is stripped back by lot. They then appoint the next group...” [1]. The fact that this kind of system did exist, but doesn’t any longer, perhaps reflects badly on it.
As a separate point, the official system, “constitution”, is always actually beholden to whatever the “real” system is, which can drift quite far. In a charity I helped out at the directors, in theory, told the CEO what to do, but in practice it was just a lot of directors saying “oh great CEO, you have been here for more time than me and therefore you are more wise. What would you recommend?”. The director turnover was high, and it takes time for someone to learn how to use the reins of power even when they have them in hand. The TV program “Yes minister” made a similar claim about the UK government. Its not hard to imagine a situation where a jury are officially in charge. but are actually commanded by a judge.
Your “select 1,000 voters at random, give them time to do research. Only they vote” system made me think of how Venice used to elect a doge. It was madness! Basically they introduced N layers of “this group of people appoint a larger group, that is stripped back by lot. They then appoint the next group...” [1]. The fact that this kind of system did exist, but doesn’t any longer, perhaps reflects badly on it.
As a separate point, the official system, “constitution”, is always actually beholden to whatever the “real” system is, which can drift quite far. In a charity I helped out at the directors, in theory, told the CEO what to do, but in practice it was just a lot of directors saying “oh great CEO, you have been here for more time than me and therefore you are more wise. What would you recommend?”. The director turnover was high, and it takes time for someone to learn how to use the reins of power even when they have them in hand. The TV program “Yes minister” made a similar claim about the UK government. Its not hard to imagine a situation where a jury are officially in charge. but are actually commanded by a judge.
[1] To quote wiki: Thirty members of the Great Council, chosen by lot, were reduced by lot to nine; the nine chose forty and the forty were reduced by lot to twelve, who chose twenty-five. The twenty-five were reduced by lot to nine, and the nine elected forty-five. These forty-five were once more reduced by lot to eleven, and the eleven finally chose the forty-one who elected the doge. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_of_Venice#:~:text=Doges%20of%20Venice%20were%20elected,were%20republics%20and%20elected%20doges.)