Question: In order to increase the amount of popular control over the public policy-making process, it has been proposed that randomly selected groups of twelve citizens (similar to the jury system used by the courts) be used to analyze and approve Congressional bills before they become law. These "policy juries" would have the power to approve a proposed law, send it back to Congress with proposed changes, or kill it. Evaluate the positives and negatives of this concept in terms of balancing the interests of democracy with the effective operation of the lawmaking process.