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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!sifon!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!sobeco!rcorco!rcorsa!catnix!root
  2. From: root@catnix.UUCP (Wonder user (M.Simond))
  3. Newsgroups: can.general
  4. Subject: A Constitutional Convention?
  5. Message-ID: <459@catnix.UUCP>
  6. Date: 10 Nov 92 01:49:59 GMT
  7. References: <1deg22INNka1@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
  8. Sender: michele%catnix@cam.org
  9. Organization: Rhinoceros, chargez!
  10. Lines: 16
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  13. buckland@ucs.ubc.ca (Tony Buckland) writes:
  14. >
  15. >[...]
  16. > Selection by lottery?  Now no interest group or party is represented
  17. >[...]
  18.  
  19. Why not something ressembling a jury. Maybe I am wrong, but as
  20. I understand the process, if a jury cannot be put together for
  21. a trial, people are picked up randomly on the street to participate
  22. to that jury.  And as far as I know, jury decisions are enforceable.
  23.  
  24. > I don't think the notion of a constitutional convention would solve
  25. > anything.
  26.  
  27. We cannot know before we try.
  28.