cabinet government

or Cabinet government

noun

First recorded in 1865–70

It meant three things: cabinet government, self-government, and party government.

Sometimes the dominant party in the House Beginning of cabinet government.

He insisted on the form of cabinet government decreed in 1852.

The retention of the Irish members breaks up our whole system of Cabinet government.

But in England we have Cabinet government and we have Parliamentary government.

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