Cabinet Council

Japanese: cabinet council（英語表記）cabinetcouncil

...It is difficult to legislate because of the conflict with the Cabinet Joint Responsibility System and the principle of equal advice from Ministers of State alone, but it can be used in peacetime in the form of a Cabinet Committee (Ministerial Conference) on specific issues. The modern British Cabinet system itself was established by directly inheriting the small number of efficient cabinets formed in the mid-18th century under wartime pressure during the Seven Years' War, within the Cabinet Council of about 20 members. Cabinet [Mizutani Mitsutaka]. ...

From the Cabinet

...Its origins date back to the Privy Council, an advisory body to the king made up of members of the privileged class. In the 17th century, in order to overcome the expansion of the Privy Council and political restrictions, the king began to invite only some of its favorites and influential ministers to secret meetings in his own cabinet, which became known as the cabinet council. It has something in common with China in that it arose as a de facto system in the inner courts to support the monarch as an active ruler, separate from the public state system, which was easily bound by clan power and tradition.

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…内閣連帯責任制や国務大臣単独平等輔弼（ほひつ）原則との兼合いで法制化されにくいが，特定問題に関する閣内委員会(閣僚会議)の形で平時にも生かされうる。なお現代イギリスの内閣制自体，20名程度の内閣会議cabinet councilの内部に，七年戦争に際して戦時圧力の下で18世紀中葉に形成された少数の実務内閣efficient cabinetを直接継承して成立した。内閣【水谷三公】。…

【内閣】より

…その起源は身分的特権層からなる国王の諮問機関，枢密院Privy Councilにさかのぼる。17世紀に入り，同院の膨張や政治的拘束を克服するため，その中の一部寵臣，有力大臣のみを国王がみずからの奥の間cabinetの秘密会議に招く傾向が強まり，それが奥の間会議cabinet councilと通称された。門閥勢力や伝統に縛られやすい表（おもて）の国事制度とは別に，能動的統治者としての君主を支えるための奥または内の事実上の制度として発生した点で中国との共通性がある。…

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