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| | Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Cabinet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The day-to-day role of a cabinet member is to serve as the head of one segment of the national bureaucracy, as the head civil servant to which all other employees in that department report. |
| | The notion of the modern cabinet is credited to the reign of George I and George II; both of whom made use of such a system, as both were non-native English speakers, unfamiliar with British politics, and thus relied heavily on groups of advisors. |
| | The Shadow Cabinet, in Commonwealth English, are the leading members, or frontbenchers, of an opposition party, who generally hold critic portfolios "shadowing" cabinet ministers, questioning their decisions and proposing policy alternatives. |
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