- Administration - Authority - Bureaucracy - Political administration - Powers that be - Regime - The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the
administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil,
church, or family government.
- Of politics - Of the government - Having, or conforming to, a settled system of
administration. - Of or pertaining to public policy, or to politics;
relating to affairs of state or administration; as, a political writer. - Of or pertaining to a party, or to parties, in the
state; as, his political relations were with the Whigs. - Politic; wise; also, artful.
- Government of a state by the immediate direction or
administration of God; hence, the exercise of political authority by
priests as representing the Deity. - The state thus governed, as the Hebrew commonwealth
before it became a kingdom.
- An advocate of confederation; specifically (Amer.
Hist.), a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its
formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored
the administration of president Washington.
- Art of government - Government affairs - In which half the members might be left on the bench? - The art and science of government - The science of government - What senators play - The science of government; that part of ethics which has
to do with the regulation and government of a nation or state, the
preservation of its safety, peace, and prosperity, the defense of its
existence and rights against foreign control or conquest, the
augmentation of its strength and resources, and the protection of its
citizens in their rights, with the preservation and improvement of
their morals.