Council of state
A council of state is a governmental body in a country, or a subdivision of a country, with a function that varies by jurisdiction. It may be the formal name for the cabinet or it may refer to a non-executive advisory body associated with a head of state. In some countries it functions as a supreme administrative court and is sometimes regarded as the equivalent of a privy council.
Modern
- Belgian Council of State is a judicial and advisory body that assists the executive with obligatory legal advice on each draft law and is the supreme court for administrative justice
- Chinese State Council is the country's highest executive body
- Colombian Council of State
- Cuban Council of State
- Danish Council of State is similar to a privy council with a largely ceremonial role
- Dutch Council of State is an advisory body that consists of one or two members of the royal family and other members appointed by the Crown
- Egyptian Council of State
- Finnish Government is literally referred to as council of state in Finnish and Swedish
- French Council of State is a judicial and advisory body. It assists the executive with legal advice and is the supreme court for administrative justice
- Ghanaian Council of State advises the President of Ghana in the exercise of most of his/her reserve powers
- Greek Council of State is the supreme administrative court of Greece and also examines all presidential decrees before they are issued
- Irish Council of State advises the President of Ireland in the exercise of most of his/her reserve powers
- Italian Council of State is a legal and administrative consultative body that ensures the legality of public administration.
- Luxembourg Council of State
- Nigerian Council of State
- North Carolina Council of State
- Norwegian Council of State
- South Korean State Council is a national council constituted by South Korean cabinet, constitutionally empowered to deliberate important policies of executive branch of South Korean government
- Spanish Council of State
- Swedish Council of State
- Philippine Council of State
- Portuguese Council of State is an advisory body of the President of the Republic
- Thai Council of State advises the executive branch on legal matters and until the establishment of the administrative courts in 1999, it also served as the supreme administrative court
- East Timorese Council of State is the political advisory body of the President of Timor-Leste
- Turkish Council of State is the supreme court for administrative justice
Defunct
- Brazilian Empire's Council of State
- Council of State of the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma
- Council of State of the People's Republic of Kampuchea
- Chilean Council of State
- English Council of State
- State Council of the German Democratic Republic
- Indian Council of State
- Ethiopian Council of State
- Israeli Provisional State Council
- Japanese Great Council of State
- Liberian Council of State was an interim governing body in the mid-1990s
- Manchukuon General Affairs State Council
- Ottoman Council of State
- Poland:
- *Polish Kingdom's Council of State
- *Provisional Council of State
- *Polish Council of State
- Romanian State Council
- Siamese Supreme Council of State
- Swedish Council of State
- Tunisian Council of State
- Vietnamese Council of State