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    The word and system you’re looking for is the ancient Greek democracy, especially from Athens.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

    Ancient Greeks believed that government and positions of power must be randomly selected by a machine from a pool of candidates, and that elections are NOT democratic. That elections are always going to be corrupted by the oligarchy.