His Cabinet: Some observers regard the modern cabinet as united not so much by the equal status of its members as by the near-presidential power of the prime minister. Others argue that, while the cabinet structure is more complex and hierarchi¬cal than before, the cabinet is still a genuinely collective final authority within the executive. However regarded, the cabinet in generally con¬ceded to be the source of political action in Par¬liament. In short, it has maintained the tradi¬tional monarchical role of determining policy. Parliament may control the government, but it cannot be said to govern.
The Cabinet. The his cabinettorical decline of the lonarch as the center of executive power was ac-ompanied by the rise of ministers to a position F ultimate executive authority. The most impor-tnt group of ministers, the cabinet, has been 'ansformed from its 18th century origins as a roup of advisers to the monarch into the focal oint of the modern executive. The cabinet has iherited not only the ultimate authority of the lonarch but also the sense of unified will that•as characteristic of royal government. Its sense F unity is reinforced by a convention of col-ctive responsibility that requires all ministers ublicly to support their colleagues and to resign they find themselves unable to do so.See Also Cabinet Debates:Concerned about the extensive commer¬cial powers and concentrated executive autht included in the Constitution, he refused to • the document, but later, in the state ratificatior. convention, reluctantly defended the new Union In 1789 he became the first attorney general the United States. Despite constitutional reser tions about the Bank of the United States, he re-mained impartial in the cabinet debates between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, and in 1794 succeeded Jefferson as secretary of state.
I a member of the Tennessee legislature U825), Grundy gained a large following laws for relief of the poor, and his I power was recognized by Andrew Jack-John H. Eaton became secretary of kson's cabinet, Grundy was appointed as seat in the U. S. Senate. He was or a full term in 1833 and served until i in Nashville, Tenn., on Dec. 19, 1840, :fora period (1838-1839) as U.S. at-fgeneral in Martin Van Buren's cabinet.
On The Other Hand See Cabinet In 1933:As a mem¬ber of the Agrarian Party he became minister of defense in 1931, but he resigned his seat in the Cabinet in 1933 in order to found the Nasjonal Samling (National Unity) Party, patterned after that of the German Nazis, which was pledged to suppression of communism in Norway and the treeing of the country's labor from unionism. During the early months of 1940 he assisted the jermans to plan the invasion of Norway, and ifter the Germans landed on April 9 he used his luthority as an army officer to hasten his coun¬ty's collapse.
REICHSTAG, rikhs'tag, the lower house of the German parliament as it existed during the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, and Hitler's National Socialist (Nazi) dictatorship. The upper house was called the Reichsrat. Al¬though it was a popularly elected chamber, the Reichstag never succeeded in curbing the Hohen-zollerns. During the brief Weimar Republic it had a democratic character, but in 1933 it set aside the Weimar Constitution, gave absolute power to Hitler and his Cabinet, and became a tool of the Nazi Party.
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