“A cabinet is a combining committee,—a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state. In its origin it belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other.”

— Walter Bagehot, book The English Constitution

No. I, "The Cabinet", p. 14
The English Constitution (1867)

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