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  • Other patterns, notes: Separation of Powers
    Suffrage
    Voting

    Role patterns
    Court
    Executive
    Figurehead
    Party
    Paymaster
    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