Cabinet of the Caldan Union

The Cabinet of the Caldan Union is a body of Ministers of the Crown that, in accordance with the Constitution and along with the Sovereign, forms the government of the Union. Legally speaking, the Cabinet is a committee of the Queen's Privy Council. At one time, it also constituted the senior level of the Ministry. However, ever since the second government of Minerva Karamanlis, the Cabinet and the Ministry have been co-terminal. The Cabinet is also often referred to as the Government, though this term might also be used to refer to all federal state institutions and Members of Parliament and Senators belonging to the political party forming the government are referred to as Government MPs or Government Senators. The term Administration is used largely synonymously but generally includes senior political advisers, though not the nonpartisan Civil Service. A given Cabinet is referred to by the name of the current Prime Minister. Hence, the current Cabinet, led by Prime Minister James Calvert, is referred to as the Calvert Cabinet, the Calvert Government, the Calvert Administration or the Calvert Ministry. While technically and historically distinct, the four terms are nearly identical in modern Caldan usage.