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  2. Cabinet of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Cabinet of the United States. The Cabinet of the United States is the principal official advisory body to the president of the United States. The Cabinet generally meets with the president in a room adjacent to the Oval Office in the West Wing of the White House. The president chairs the meetings but is not formally a member of the Cabinet.

  3. History of the United States government - Wikipedia

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    Upon taking the office of president, John Adams chose to retain Washington's executive cabinet. [citation needed] The Department of the Navy was established in 1798, and the Secretary of the Navy was added to the cabinet. [42] The United States Marine Corps was established within the Department of the Navy in 1798. [43]

  4. Presidential cabinets of the Weimar Republic - Wikipedia

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    The presidential cabinets (German: Präsidialkabinette) were a succession of governments of the Weimar Republic whose legitimacy derived exclusively from presidential emergency decrees. From April 1930 to January 1933, three chancellors, Heinrich Brüning, Franz von Papen, and Kurt von Schleicher were appointed by President Paul von Hindenburg ...

  5. Weimar Republic - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The Weimar Republic, [ d ] officially known as the German Reich, [ e ] was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.

  6. Federalist Era - Wikipedia

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    The Federalist Era in American history ran from 1788 to 1800, a time when the Federalist Party and its predecessors were dominant in American politics. During this period, Federalists generally controlled Congress and enjoyed the support of President George Washington and President John Adams. The era saw the creation of a new, stronger federal ...

  7. Cabinet (government) - Wikipedia

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    A cabinet in governing is a group of people with the constitutional or legal task to rule a country or state, or advise a head of state, usually from the executive branch. [ 1 ] Their members are known as ministers and secretaries and they are often appointed by the head of state or prime minister. [ 2 ]

  8. Democratic-Republican Party - Wikipedia

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    e. The Republican Party, known retroactively as the Democratic-Republican Party (also referred to by historians as the Jeffersonian Republican Party) [a], was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s. It championed liberalism, republicanism, individual liberty, equal rights, decentralization ...

  9. Cursus honorum - Wikipedia

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    Politics of ancient Rome. The cursus honorum (Latin for 'course of honors', or more colloquially 'ladder of offices'; Latin: [ˈkʊrsʊs hɔˈnoːrũː]) was the sequential order of public offices held by aspiring politicians in the Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire. It was designed for men of senatorial rank.