Danaan Cabinet

The Danaan Cabinet was a formal body headed by the Prime Minister of the Danaan High Kingdom and consisting of the most senior ministers in the Danaan Government. Members of the Cabinet were all heads of government departments entitled to the syle Minister of State. Members of the Cabinet were drawn exclusively from Parliament.

The Cabinet is the key formal decision making body in the political executive of the Resurgent Dream. However, it is not the only one. In addition to specialized executive bodies composed of certain government ministers and ranking civil servants, the Danaan Executive also includes the more selective Council of Ministers and the broader Danaan Government.

Constitutional and legal basis

The Danaan Constitution gives Parliament the right to determine which ministries are to be included in the Cabinet and numerous other specifics of how the executive is to function, within the general framework of the Danaan constitutional structure, in a Resolution on the Cabinet. This is always done very precisely. The current Resolution on the Cabinet, passed in early 2006, is 1215 pages in length.

Because a Resolution on the Cabinet is a resolution, passed by the Parliament in its own right, and not an Act requiring royal assent, Danaan convention requires all the parties in Parliament to allow their members a freedom of conscience vote, although this is not directly addressed in law.

History

The first Danaan Cabinet came into being in 1712 when Prime Minister Lord Percival ap Dougal asked High Queen Corrina to appoint a number of his closest colleagues in Parliament as ranking ministers of her Government. The first Cabinet consisted of Marquess Cahir ap Eiluned as Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Andrew ap Dougal as Minister for Defense, and Lord Percival ap Dougal as Prime Minister.

Significance

The Cabinet is the most important Executive decision making body in the Resurgent Dream. Although in recent years more emphasis has been placed on the Prime Minister or on the entire Parliament, the Cabinet remains the body which dominates in setting the legislative agenda and overwhelming predominates in making strictly executive decisions.

Traditionally, the most important Cabinet Ministers are the Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minister for Federal Affairs, Minister for Justice, and Minister for Defense.