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TEXT WITH VISUALS for the lecture: “Steps Toward Abolishing War: Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping and A Two-Legged Democracy” (video, following item)by David Grant The Peace Studies Lectureat Saint Lawrence University4 November 2013

These three, stylistically different, 3-minute shorts were created for the Looking at Democracy contest. Towards a Two-Legged Democracyhttps://vimeo.com/110038574 Making Democracy Real – The argument for legislative jurieshttp://lookingatdemocracy.org/submissions/14951-making-democracy-real-th… Making Democracy Realityhttp://lookingatdemocracy.org/submissions/15129-making-democracy-reality

I am trying to raise $1,000 (by 28 April) to make a short video to enter MacArthur Foundation”s ” Looking At Democracy” contest. Please CONTRIBUTE AT: http://tilt.tc/52vH Thank you.

Sometimes it takes a little chutzpah to move things along. I am auctioning on Ebay my hand-annotated edited print-out of The Common Lot Fights for Random. short URL is http://alturl.com/ysegi

In my previous blog I talked about how to support advocates (the nice word for lobbyists) for a government by the people. Here’s the link to that bloghttps://commonlot.wordpress.com/author/commonlot/

Examples from ancient to modern excerpted from Wikipedia (September 2011) From Wikipedia ‘sortition’: Examples Historical The Athenian democracy made much use of sortition, with nearly all government offices filled by lottery rather than by election. The Doge of Venice was … Continue reading →

A list of many different uses of allotment from ancient times until present. Not only about the political use of allotment.

Here is my reading list. I haven’t read all of them yet, but most of them. Manin’s book is good…primarily the historic underpinnings of the American choice in the Constitution of election instead of sortition.· Sortition: Theory and Practice, edited … Continue reading →