adam . # .

My reasoning there: Although a pure sortitionist chamber has its appeal, I added this because of the Legislative Council\'s role as an upper house. The partisan members exist to defend the policies of the government in the upper house; they may well appoint a Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council.

The non-partisan members are as you say intended to be the great and good from the community. The government could use it to eg appoint a representatives of the indigenous community. It could also be a training ground for Governors.

I still intend the sortitioned element to completely dominate the voting; you may note the worst ratio is 20:3:3.

I think this constitution is mainly shorter because of the elision of a Bill of Rights. I had originally started on a federal constitution. It may have been longer as the dynamic section was intended to bar the feds from domains left to the states, like policing and education.