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executiveThe institutions of
government
have traditionally been
classified under three heads: the
legislature
which makes laws; the
judiciary
which interprets laws and
applies them to particular cases; and the executive which
administers laws made by the legislature. The biggest
of these components is the executive because it includes most of
the activities we associate with government—all
government departments and public servants as well as the
premier
, the
cabinet
and
ministers
are part of the
executive.
It can be helpful to subdivide the executive into
three components: the formal executive, the
head of state
which, in British
Columbia is the
lieutenant governor
acting in the
name of the
Crown
; the political executive which
is the premier, ministers and the cabinet acting as the key
decision makers for steering government; and the public service and
government agencies which administer the laws of the Province.
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