There was nothing practical preventing the establishment of a multiple step procedure: lots could have been drawn in small districts, and a further drawing of lots could then have taken place among the names selected by lot at the first level. It is even more remarkable that no one thought of using lot for local purposes. Towns, or even counties of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries could not have been much larger or more populous than ancient Attica or Renaissance Florence. Local political functions presumably did not present a high degree of complexity.