The President's Cabinet

The recent publication, within a few months of each other, of two independent works on the President's cabinet serves to call attention to an important political institution in this country, which has hitherto failed to receive adequate recognition. Mr. Bryce has stated that, in the government of the United States, there is "no such thing as a cabinet in the English sense of the term;" and the larger part of his short chapter discusses what the President's cabinet is not rather than what it is. But if the cabinet in the United States is not the same thing as the British cabinet, it is a significant factor in the operation of the government deserving more consideration than it has received.Mr. Learned disclaims any attempt at a complete history of the cabinet; and, as indicated in the sub-title, presents a series of studies on the origin and formation of the cabinet-its anatomy rather than its functions. But in tracing the development of the composition of the cabinet, approximately half of the text is devoted to chapters on the origin and formation of the executive departments, whose heads have been added to the cabinet as first organized. A second series of studies on cabinet practices and personnel is expected to follow

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• The Comparative Politics of Cabinet Reshuffles

  Open Access•Ludger Helms, Michelangelo Vercesi•Government and Opposition•2024

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• The Law and Custom of the Constitution

  W P M Kennedy, William R Anson et al.•University of Toronto Law Journal•1936

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• The President's Cabinet

  Henry Barrett Learned•The American Historical Review•1912

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