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The U.S. Congress is the bicameral legislature of the United States government, and is made up of two chambers: the United States Senate (the upper chamber) and the United States House of Representatives (the lower chamber). Together, the two chambers exercise authority over the following legislative agencies:
Early examples of organizations that would now be termed a government agency include the British Navy Board, responsible for ships and supplies, which was established [2] in 1546 by King Henry VIII and the British Commissioners of Bankruptcy established [3] in 1570.
Term Description Examples Autocracy: Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).
Category for lists of government agencies, by country or nature of agency ... List of Member States of the International Hydrographic Organization; L.
This is a list of the offices of heads of state, heads of government, cabinet, and legislature, of sovereign states. Date of Origin refers to most recent fundamental change in form of government, for example independence, change from absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy, revolution, new constitution.
Lists of government agencies in the United States (1 C, 28 P) Pages in category "Lists of government agencies by country" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
Government-related organisations based in Edinburgh (17 P) Electoral colleges (5 C, 22 P) Electoral reform groups (1 C, 9 P) F. Federal law enforcement agencies (13 C) G.
The United States federal executive departments are the principal units of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States.They are analogous to ministries common in parliamentary or semi-presidential systems but (the United States being a presidential system) they are led by a head of government who is also the head of state.