Government

1.

The regulation, re- SST straint, supervision, or control which is exercised upon the individual members of an organized jural society by those invested with the supreme politiea! authority, for the good «nd welfare of the body politie; or the act of exercising supreme political power or control.

2.

The system of polity in astate; that form of fandamental rules and principles by which a nation or state is governed, or by which individual members of a body politic are to regulate their social actions; a constitution, either written or unwritten, by which the rights and duties of citizens aud pubiie oificers are prescribed and defined, as a monarchical government, & republican government, ete.

Webster. 3.

Anempiro, kingdom, state, or independent political community; as in the phrase, “Compacts between independent governmeuts.” 4, The sovereign or supreme power in a state or nation. 5, The machinery by which the sovereign power in a state expresses its will and exerby means of which the executive, judicial, legislative, and adininistrative business of the state is carried on.

6.

The whele class or body of office-holders or functionaries considered in the aggregate, upon whom devolves the executive, judicial, legislative, and administrative business of the state.

7.

In a colloquial sense, the United States, or ils representatives, considered as the prosecutor in a criminal action; as in the phrase, “the government objects to the witness.” We understand, in modern political science, by “state,” in its widest sense, an independent society, acknowledging no superior, aud by the term “vovernment, ” that institution or aggregate of institutions by which that socicty makes and carries out those rules of action which are necessary to enable men to live in a social state, or which are imposed upon the people forming that society by those who possess the power or authority of pre seribing them. “Government” is the aggregate of authorities which ruleasociety. By “administration,” again, we understand in modern times, and especially in more or less free countri¢s, the aggregate of those persons in whose hands the reins of government are for the time being, (the chief ministers or heads of departments.) But the terms “state,” “government,” and “adminis Lration” ure not always used in their strictness. The government of astate being its most prominent feature, which is most readily perceived, “government” hus frequently been used for “state;” and the publicists of the last century almost always used the term “government,” or “form of government,” when they discussed the different political societies orstutes On theother band, “government” is often uscd, to this day, for ‘administration, ” in the sense in which it has been explained.

Louvier.

GOVERNMENT AWNNUITIES SO-