The egg came first. Many lizard-deciding-bodies or mechanisms may have chosen sortition! And perhaps it was a bad habit or even an old charter to throw names

The egg came first. Many lizard-deciding-bodies or mechanisms may have chosen sortition! And perhaps it was a bad habit or even an old charter to throw names in a hat, not without the notice of the literate or the haberdashers/milliners union(s), who sought to leverage their skills into greater advantage . . .