Concept
Executive (government)
Overview
branch of the government that has sole authority and responsibility for the administration of the state
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Each minor chief commands those under him, and, if need be, himself coerces them into obedience. The council of chiefs itself carries out on the battle-field its own decisions. The head chief not only makes laws, but administers justice with his own hands. In larger and more settled communities, however, the directive and executive agencies begin to grow distinct from each other. As fast as his duties accumulate…
Herbert Spencer, Essays
Names Executive twice.
He is assisted by a council of eight members. The judiciary powers are divided among several courts, as will be hereafter explained. Legislation is exercised by two houses of assembly, the one called the house of Delegates, composed of two members from each county, chosen annually by the citizens, possessing an estate for life in one hundred acres of uninhabited land, or twenty-five acres with a house on it, or in a…
Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 8
Opens on Executive; names Executive.
Thus supposing the regulation of times for the assembling and sitting of the legislative, not settled by the original constitution, it naturally fell into the hands of the executive, not as an arbitrary power depending on his good pleasure, but with this trust always to have it exercised only for the public weal, as the occurrences of times and change of affairs might require. Whether settled periods of their…
John Locke, Second Treatise of Government
Names Executive twice; opens on Executive.
Philosophers who discussed Executive (government)
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Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.