APPOINTMENT

'Appointment' may refer to a number of things, including the following:

★ An 'appointment' is a time reserved for something such as a doctor visit, much like a reservation.

★ An 'appointment', in government also refers to the assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court. This may also happen for an office which is normally elected, but has an unexpected vacancy. A person appointed but not yet in office is a 'designate'.

★ The 'power of appointment', in law, is the ability of a testator to select another person to dispose of the testator's property.

★ An 'appointment of clergy', in Christianity, is made by a bishop to a particular ministry setting, particularly in denominations which practice episcopal forms of church government and polity (such as Anglicanism and United Methodist Church.) Typically, a pastor is appointed to a particular church or parish.

★ Appointment is used to describe a system of selecting candidates in which the choice is made by an individual or panel rather than by a poll of the populace in general (election), or through random selection (allotment/sortition) as used to select juries.

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See also

See also

★ Election

★ Allotment

★ Sortition

★ Lottocracy

★ Clerotarchy