MINISTER

In Politics, a servant of the sovereign exenow cutive power in a state: generally speaking, the head of a on department or branch of government. Usage, in different Ruelle, countries, fixes very differently the limits of that higher cla and of servants tn which the term is applied. In the British general. empire, none but the heads of administrative departments are termed ministers: part of whom belong to the cabinet, it ani part are not included in it. The cabinet ministers have would wired under different administrations; and as our govern not ment is of mixed organization, partly to serve the actual 1. nece ities of slate, and partly retaining ancient distinctions the of office founded on usage only, some of the ministers hold whose «ierelv si iccure appointments In France, where the forms culpable [s. 771]