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Pretty straightforward. What if the US Constitution uses sortition (random selection from the entire eligible population) to select members of government?

What might this look like in practice? I was thinking the House would be selected by sortition, since the larger numbers (435 vs 100 in the Senate) will iron out the statistical errors (no chance of 51 randomly-selected Nazis ruining it for the rest of us), plus the House is is supposed to be more representative of the people.

How would random selection of 435 people among a population of hundreds of millions work? And what might the modern political system look like?
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