IMO you'd want this to pay pretty well, like 95th percentile income, to help ensure that most people would actually _want_ to serve.
IMO you'd want this to pay pretty well, like 95th percentile income, to help ensure that most people would actually _want_ to serve.
Just give it the same income as current congress representatives. That's already a 90th percentile income.
95th%ile income, given to people with randomly distributed incomes? first law they pass: "we get to keep this job, we need to get rid of sortition, it'll never work!"
This is a strawman. Since this body would be organized by the constitution, it can trivially eliminate that risk by just setting a duration of their term, which they would not be able to overturn.