authority] judicature &c. 965; cabinet &c.
(council) 696; seat of government, seat of authority; headquarters.
     [Acquisition of authority] accession; installation &c. 755; politics
&c. 737a.
     reign, regime, dynasty; directorship, dictatorship; protectorate,
protectorship; caliphate, pashalic[obs3], electorate; presidency, presidentship[obs3]; administration; proconsul, consulship; prefecture; seneschalship; magistrature[obs3], magistracy.
     monarchy; kinghood[obs3], kingship; royalty, regality;
aristarchy[obs3], aristocracy; oligarchy, democracy, theocracy, demagogy; commonwealth; dominion; heteronomy; republic, republicanism; socialism; collectivism; mob law, mobocracy[obs3], ochlocracy[obs3]; vox populi, imperium in imperio[Lat]; bureaucracy; beadledom[obs3], bumbledom[obs3]; stratocracy; military power, military government, junta; feodality[obs3], feudal system, feudalism.
     thearchy[obs3], theocracy, dinarchy[obs3]; duarchy[obs3], triarchy,
heterarchy[obs3]; duumvirate; triumvirate; autocracy, autonomy; limited monarchy; constitutional government, constitutional monarchy; home rule; representative government; monocracy[obs3], pantisocracy[obs3].
     gynarchy[obs3], gynocracy[obs3], gynaeocracy[obs3]; petticoat
government.
     [government functions] legislature, judiciary, administration.
     [Government agencies and institutions] office of the president, office
of the prime minister, cabinet; senate, house of representatives, parliament; council &c. 696; courts, supreme court; state[U.S. national government departments (list)], interior, labor, health and human services, defense, education, agriculture, justice, commerce, treasury; Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI; Central Intelligence Agency, CIA; National Institutes of Health, NIH; Postal Service, Post Office; Federal Aviation Administration, FAA.
     [national government officials] president, vice president, cabinet
member, prime minister, minister; senator, representatative, president pro tem[Lat], speaker of the house; department head, section head, section chief; federal judge, justice, justice of the supreme court, chief justice; treasurer, secretary of the treasury; director of the FBI.
     [state government officials] governor, state cabinet member; state
senator, assemblyman, assemblywoman. 
     V. govern, rule, have authority, hold authority, possess authority,
exercise authority, exert authority, wield authority &c. n.; reign, be sovereign.
     [acquire authority] ascend the throne, mount the throne; take the
reins, take the reins into one’s hand; assume authority &c. n., assume the reins of government; take command, assume command.
     [contend for authority] politics &c. 737a.
     be governed by, be in the power of, be a subject of, be a citizen of. 
     Adj. regal, sovereign, governing; royal, royalist; monarchical,
kingly; imperial, imperiatorial[obs3]; princely; feudal;