Executive College

The Federal Executive College (Coscivian: Rektārkax Vekturxóstrev), known informally as the "Federal Cabinet" (Rektārkax Xudra), is the highest body of the executive branch of the Government of the Kiravian Federacy. Appointed and led by the Prime Executive of the Kiravian Federacy, the Executive College acts as the organisational conduit through which the administration directs the professional federal bureaucracy, implements its policy objectives, and formulates inter-agency responses to national issues.

As the Kiravian federal government is a fully presidential system, the Executive College is not independent of the Prime Executive (all of its members are appointed and dismissible by the PE), and only exercises a few reserve powers of its own (see below). This contrasts with the executive colleges (and analogous bodies) of many Kiravian states and territories, which exercise substantial power as collegial institutions and may also have some degree of independence from the Chief Executive/Governor. As such, nearly all cabinet votes are advisory in nature (so that the PE may gauge support for a measure among his administration) or relate to internal business. Practicality, convention, and custom underpin the importance and political role of the Executive College more than constitutional authority, and its manner of business has evolved under different administrations.

Composition and Powers
Constitutional basis + Reserve powers Eligibility for appointment. Confirmation process.

Three members of the College - the Prime Executive, Second Executive, and Reserve Executive - are elected. Eligibility for all three offices and the nomination/election process therefor is governed by Chapter II, Article I of the Constitution.

The offices of Secretary-General, Attorney-General, Chief State Executive, Chief Defence Executive, Chief Territorial Executive, and Chief Maritime Executive are also established by the Constitution (Chapter II, Article II). These officers are appointed by the Prime Executive, subject to confirmation by the Stanora.

Most of the other offices are established by Acts of the Stanora, appointed by the Prime Executive, subject to confirmation by the Stanora.

The Prime Executive may independently name additional officers to the College without confirmation by the Stanora and assign them official duties by Collegial Ordinance, but these officers cannot vote on Collegial business unless confirmed.

Things the College can do as a body:


 * Submit legislative proposals to the Stanora.
 * Draft a budget and present the same to the Stanora
 * Make appointments to federal public corporations and federally-chartered.
 * Suspend the charters of internal territories and overseas territories, dependencies, and other federal subjects lacking domestic autonomy.
 * Exercise the legal rights of the Government of the Kiravian Federacy in regard to civil lawsuits, state private property, and (wholly or partly) state-owned enterprises.

Emergency powers:
 * Coup the Prime Executive
 * If the Stanora is unable to function, the College may temporarily assume its powers.

Decrees
The Executive College can issue several types of decrees with the force of law.
 * Collegial Decrees create in areas permitted by the Constitution. They are enacted "on behalf of the Emperor" and authenticated with the State Seal.
 * Collegial Ordinances mostly create . They are enacted "in the name of the Emperor" and bear the State Seal.
 * Collegi ate Ordinances are enacted "in service to the Emperor" and bear the Government Seal.
 * Collegial Orders create regulations. They are enacted "in service to the Emperor" and bear the Government Seal.

A Note on Titles
The early Executive College did not resemble most modern cabinets in that its portfolios were not necessarily tied to a particular policy area (e.g. defence, finance). Rather, the first few Prime Executives of the Federal Period appointed individuals they trusted to the Executive College and assigned responsibility for subordinate agencies more or less arbitrarily. Slightly later on, there developed a custom of assigning Chief Executives responsibility for certain buildings in Kartika, and Chief Executives were charged with issuing orders to and collecting reports from whichever bureaux were housed in their buildings, regardless of what those bureaux did. As the federal bureaucracy matured, there eventually developed a closer correlation between agencies' functions, their office locations, and their responsible Chief Executive. However, many of the policy secretariats remained quite broad in scope, and Chief Executives continued to be addressed by titles such as Steward of Torrigen Gate and Captain of the Citadel. Some such titles, most notably Dean of the Tholos, persisted even after the Collegian in question no longer worked in their titular building.

The traditional titles were scrapped by the Socialist Party once it entered government, and were replaced with the title of Linaren ("Minister") and straightforward functional epithets typical of modern Western cabinets (Minister of Defence, Minister of the Sea). The Federalist government-in-exile on Æonara, though operating an ocean away from the titular buildings, initially held steadfastly to the traditional titles as symbols of its commitment to retaking the mainland. However, as the structure of the Executive College and underlying bureaucracy changed in adaptation to local conditions on Æonara, many of the traditional titles fell into abeyance or came to coexist with standardised functional titles like *Chief State Executive* in everyday use. After the Federalist return to power in Great Kirav was realised, the new style titles were made standard by PE Kólsylvar, and PE Rénkédar issued a memorandum relegating the traditional titles to ceremonial uses only. According to A.R. Ellagikuv, Secretary-General under Kólsylvar at the time of the switch, the change in style was meant to clarify equality in rank among members of the College, project a modern, professional, and technocratic image to the foreign press, and help citizens better understand their government, as polling showed that many mainland Kiravians who had lived under socialism were unfamiliar with the traditional titles. PE Candrin, during his third term, rescinded the Rénkédar memorandum, and has encouraged the supplemental use of the traditional titles, though the modern titles remain standard in most contexts.