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CHAPTER III.
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SECRETARY AT WAR, WITH SEAT IN THE CABINET.
IT is a great thing to be a Cabinet Minister. Every man when he begins a life of politics feels that. He feels it when he gets into Parliament, and when he joins a Government in some subordinate office. It is the goal to which his hopes aspire1, and the success to which his ambition ventures to look. The young politician hardly expects to be Prime Minister, but he does, within his own bosom2, think it possible that he may achieve an entrance within those doors which enclose that mysterious entity3 which we call the Cabinet. The Cabinet is essentially4 English in its abnormal constitution, having grown to its present enormous responsibility without any written rules or defined powers. There is nothing to prescribe its numbers, which do indeed vary very greatly; nor indeed is there any law requiring that this or that officer of the Government should be a member of it,—as there is no law by which its very existence is made necessary. It is considered essential that the Chancellor5 and the Secretaries of State should be of the Cabinet, but we have no law which would be broken were it to be completed without them. But it is understood by all men that the governing of the country is in the hands of a small junta6 of individuals who form the Cabinet, and it is equally well understood that all members{29} of the Government who are not in the Cabinet are responsible for nothing beyond the proper performances of their own official duties; though they, too, are bound to resign when their betters resign, and are bound also to support their betters by parliamentary aid and judicious7 backing in all but the very few matters which are regarded as “open questions.” In fact, the Cabinet Minister is a governing power, and the Minister not in the Cabinet is simply the servant of the Premier8
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perversity
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treasury
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chancellorship
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autobiographer
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lessening
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follower
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patriot
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impeachment
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withdrawal
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