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What do Brits use to refer to British courts, Parliament and executive considered as a whole?
by hollerith 5y ago
What do Brits use to refer to British courts, Parliament and executive considered as a whole?
- darrenf 5y agoThose are the three branches of the state. We consider government to be the executive only. The judiciary does not govern.
- hollerith 5y agoAh. Americans use "state" to mean one of the 50 provinces of the US, leaving the word unavailable for what Brits use it for.
- zarzavat 5y agoWhat about the state department?
- hollerith 5y agoThat is our term for what the Brits call the Foreign Office.
- CRConrad 5y agoYes. I think the GP's point was that this shows how US usage also, still, to some extent reflects that of the rest of the world: Your State Department is called that because it is the organ that deals with other sovereign states.
- kazinator 5y agoPointless word semantics aside, the point here is that they are branches of one thing; if you piss off one branch, strings can be pulled so that another branch treats you severely in court. This is plausible.