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CABINET GOVERNMENT [1 record]

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Record 1 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Political Systems
  • The Executive (Constitutional Law)
  • Parliamentary Language
DEF

A system based on a fusion of executive and legislative powers in the hands of a cabinet operating in conjunction with the principle of ultimate parliamentary supremacy.

CONT

To the adherents of arming our legislature against "executive tyranny" in the American style, one can submit that, whatever the empirical rate of defeats of cabinet-style governments, it will be considerably larger than the number of presidential impeachments in the United States.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Régimes politiques
  • Pouvoir exécutif (Droit constitutionnel)
  • Vocabulaire parlementaire
DEF

Nom donné au régime parlementaire dans lequel la prépondérance du pouvoir exécutif est le fait du seul gouvernement et de son chef [...]

Spanish

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