Government of Mardisia
The Government of Mardisia (Barborican: gouvernement du Mardisia) is the body responsible for the federal administration of Mardisia. A constitutional monarchy, the Crown is the corporation sole, assuming distinct roles: the executive, as the Crown-in-Council; the legislature, as the Crown-in-Parliament; and the courts, as the Crown-on-the-Bench. Three institutions, the Privy Council (conventionally, the Cabinet); the Parliament of Mardisia; and the judiciary, exercise the powers of the Crown.
The term "Government of Mardisia" more commonly refers specifically to the executive: ministers of the Crown (the Cabinet) and the federal civil service (whom the Cabinet direct), which corporately brands itself as the federal government, formally known as His Majesty's Government (Gouvernement de Sa Majesté).
There are ??? ministries, departments and crown corporations and over 300,000 persons employed in the Government of Mardisia. These institutions carry out the programs and enforce the laws established by the Parliament of Mardisia.
The federal government's organization and structure was established at Confederation through the Constitution Act of 18?? as a federal constitutional monarchy, wherein the Mardisian Crown acts as the core of its Westhoughton-style parliamentary democracy, thus the foundation of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Mardisian government.
His Majesty, King Alexander I, is personally represented by a Governor-General (currently Aubrey McCrae) and is the head of state. The Prime Minister (currently Aiden Cameron) is the head of government, who is invited by the Crown to form a government after securing the confidence of the House of Commons, usually determined through the election of enough members of a single political party at a federal election, to form a ruling party. Further elements of governance are outlined in the rest of the Mardisian Constitution, which consists not only of judicial decisions but also of written laws and unwritten conventions that have developed over centuries.
Constitutionally, the King's Mardisian Privy Council is the body that advises the sovereign or their representative on the exercise of executive power. This task is nearly exclusively carried out by a committee within the King's Privy Council known as the Cabinet who collectively set the government's policies and priorities for the country. It is composed of ministers of the Crown and is chaired by the prime minister. The sovereign appoints the members of Cabinet on the advice of the prime minister who, by convention, are selected from the House of Commons or, less often, the Senate. During its term, the government must retain the confidence of the House of Commons, and certain important motions, such as the passing of the government's budget, are considered as confidence motions. Laws are formed by the passage of bills through Parliament, which are either sponsored by the government or individual members of Parliament. Once a bill has been approved by both the House of Commons and the Senate, royal assent is required to make the bill become law. The laws are then the responsibility of the government to oversee and enforce.
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Prime Minister
One of the main duties of the Crown is to ensure that a democratic government is always in place, which includes the appointment of a prime minister, who heads the Cabinet and directs the activities of the government. Although the post is not defined in detail in any constitutional document, it exists according to a long-established convention whereby the Crown has to select as Prime Minister a person who can win the confidence of the elected House of Commons, and who in practice, is usually the leader of the political party with more seats than any other party in the House (currently, the Mardisian Party under Aiden Cameron).
Should no particular party hold a majority in the House of Commons, the leader of either the party with the most seats or one supported by most other parties, will be called by the Governor-General to form a minority government. Once sworn in, the Prime Minister holds office until their resignation or removal by the Governor-General, after either a motion of no confidence or defeat in a general election.