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GLASS. 

 Glaz'ing. — The art of setting glass. 



GOVERNMENT. 



Pol'itics (Gr. polid'kos, from i^olis, a city). — The science of 

 government. That part of ethics wliich consists in the 

 regulation and government of a nation or state for the 

 preservation of its safety, peace, and prosperity. 



Alien. — One who is not a denizen, or entitled to the privileges 

 of a citizen, 



Alli'ance. — The union between nations, contracted by compact, 

 treaty, or league. 



Autoc'racy. — Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority or 

 right of governing in a single person. 



Auton'omy. — The power or right of self-government. 



Balance of Power. — Such an adjustment of power among 

 sovereign states that no single state is in a condition to 

 interfere with the independence of the rest. 



Body Politic. — The collective body of a nation under civil 

 government. 



Branches of Government. — The legislative body deliberates 

 and enacts laws ; the judicial body judges, or applies the 

 laws to particular cases ; the executive carries the laws 

 into eiFect, or superintends their enforcement. 



Budget. — The annual financial statement which the British 

 chancellor of the exchequer, or sometimes the first lord 

 of the' treasury, makes in the House of Commons. lb 

 comprehends a general view of the national debt, income, 

 and expenditure, ways and means, etc., with the proposed 

 plan of taxation for the ensuing year. 



Bu'reau. — An inferior and subordinate department of the gov- 

 ernment. 



Bureau'cracy. — A system in which the business of govern- 

 ment is carried on in departments, each under the control 

 of a chief, in contradistinction from a system in which the 

 officers of government have a co-ordinate authority. 



Cabinet, or Ministry. — Persons who compose the executive 

 government or the council of a supreme magistrate. 



Camarilla. — A secret cabinet, not publicly recognized. 



