In governance, sortition is the selection of public officials or jurors using a random representative sample.
A kleroterion in the Ancient Agora Museum (Athens)
USCAR Court select juries by sortition
Drawing straws within a small group: one of four matches is broken to be shorter than the others, and the four are presented to the group to draw from, the chooser of the short match being selected
Athenian democracy developed around the 6th century BC in the Greek city-state of Athens, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica. Although Athens is the most famous ancient Greek democratic city-state, it was not the only one, nor was it the first; multiple other city-states adopted similar democratic constitutions before Athens. By the late 4th century BC, as many as half of the over one thousand existing Greek cities might have been democracies. Athens practiced a political system of legislation and executive bills. Participation was open to adult, free male citizens The metics probably constituted no more than 30 percent of the total adult population.
The relief representation depicts the personified Demos being crowned by Democracy. About 276 BC. Ancient Agora Museum.
Cleisthenes
The Constitution of Athens by Aristotle that details the constitution of Classical Athens.
Bust of Pericles, marble Roman copy after a Greek original from c. 430 BC
