[jbovlaste] Re: jbovlaste new entries

[Ted Reed <ted.reed@gmail.com>]

On Jul 12, 2009, at 9:41, "komfo,amonan" <komfoamonan@gmail.com> wrote:

> There are at least two senses of 'government'. One is the  
> abstraction of 'govern' ({zu'o turni}). Another is the mass of  
> people, divided into various institutions, which does the governing;  
> I think this is {truci'e}. Another (used in Britain IIRC, but not in  
> the US) is the group composed of the PM & his ministers (& maybe  
> their staffs) in their executive function.

In the US we refer to that as the Adminstration, as in "members of the  
Bush adminstration." I think because it would be out of place to refer  
to just one of the three branches by itself as a government.

--bancus