The other notable fact is that political writers of the caliber of
Harrington, Montesquieu, and Rousseau should, each from his own
standpoint and in his own manner, have advanced the same
proposition, namely that election was aristocratic in nature, whereas
lot is par excellence the democratic selection procedure. Not only had
lot not disappeared from the theoretical horizon at the time representative government was invented,there was also a commonly accepted doctrine among intellectual authorities regarding the comparative properties of lot and election.