privy council

Examples

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• This proposal was submitted to the Committee on Detail, which, on August 22, proposed that the President should have a privy council composed in a manner comparable to the Ellsworth and Morris proposals.

  Academic text (2005)

• Privy councils advised the governor as early as the seventeenth century.

  Academic text (2005)

• Then she turned toward the king's privy council and continued.

  That's What I Am (2011)

• Thus, the new constitution retained a strong privy council as a check on the Governor.

  Academic text (2005)

• The question of whether the unitary Executive should be advised by a privy council was again raised on August 18.

  Academic text (2005)

• She has proven herself, in fact, far more capable than my own privy council!

  Mary Queen of Scots (2018)

• Adams argued that the President should be advised on appointments by a privy council, not by the Senate, because, among other things, the burden of deliberating on every nomination for appointment would be intolerable.

  Academic text (2005)

• George Mason persisted in his support for a privy council as the delegates debated the Compromise Committee's proposal that appointments be made by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.

  Academic text (2005)

• I am a member of the king's privy council that advises him on matters of state.

• The queen relies on her privy council for important decisions affecting the realm.

Synonyms

C

council

vsprivy council

572 2.9

A group of people who meet to discuss and make decisions about a town or organization

is a body of advisers appointed to counsel a sovereign or ruler

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