Executive Administration
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
or MINISTRY, A political term in England, applicable te the higher and responsible class of public officials by whom the chief departments of the government of the kingdom are administered. The number of these amounts to fifty or sixty persons. Their tenure of office depends on the confidence of a majority of the house of commons, and they are supposed to be agreed on all matters of general policy except such as are specilically left open questions. Cab. Lawy.