Other patterns, notes: If anyone has pointers on political parties from between the 1st and 17th centuries, that would be cool. Maybe from the Serene Republic of Venice or the Roman Senate.
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Separation of Powers
Suffrage
Voting
Role patterns
Court
Executive
Figurehead
Party
Review
Appointment patterns
Election
Examination
Interview
Sortition (Lottery)
And as the art of well building, is derived from principles of reason, observed by industrious men, that had long studied the nature of materials, and the divers effects of figure, and proportion, long after mankind began (though poorly) to build: so, long time after men have begun to constitute commonwealths, imperfect, and apt to relapse into disorder, there may, principles of reason be found out, by industrious meditation, to make their constitution (excepting by external violence) everlasting.
-- Hobbes, Leviathan
All acts of building are governed by a pattern language of some sort, and the patterns in the world are there, entirely because they are created by the pattern languages which people use.
-- Alexander, The Timeless Way Of Building
Comments
Suffrage
Voting Role patterns
Court
Executive
Figurehead
Party
Review Appointment patterns
Election
Examination
Interview
Sortition (Lottery) And as the art of well building, is derived from principles of reason, observed by industrious men, that had long studied the nature of materials, and the divers effects of figure, and proportion, long after mankind began (though poorly) to build: so, long time after men have begun to constitute commonwealths, imperfect, and apt to relapse into disorder, there may, principles of reason be found out, by industrious meditation, to make their constitution (excepting by external violence) everlasting.
-- Hobbes, Leviathan All acts of building are governed by a pattern language of some sort, and the patterns in the world are there, entirely because they are created by the pattern languages which people use.
-- Alexander, The Timeless Way Of Building