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 | | Although the true privy council is the cabinet, the name is to-day given collectively to a large number of eminent people whose membership and position are titular only. |
 | | The lord chancellor, the lords of appeal in ordinary, the president of the probate division, the lord president of the court of session in Scotland, the lord justice clerk and the lord advocate of Scotland are always privy councillors, as are the archbishops of Canterbury and York and the bishop of London. |
 | | In German~ a privy council (Gehe?mes Rats-Kollegium, Geheimes Conseil Siwsisrat), which under the prince formed the supreme organ ol government, formerly existed in the various states of the empire and out of this the ministries develooed in the 17th century. |
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