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A Cabinet is a combining committee--a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the State to the executive part of the State.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot metaphorically describes the Cabinet as a mechanism that connects the legislative and executive branches of government.
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