Cygnian federal executive ministries (Joan of What?)

The Cygnian federal executive ministries are among the oldest primary units of the executive branch of the Cygnian Imperial Government – the Ministries for Foreign Affairs, War, and the Treasury all having been established within a few weeks of each other in 1792.

All ministries are led by two individuals, both nominated by the Chancellor, but appointed by different entities. Ministers are legislators – that is, Members of Congress – appointed by the Emperor upon nomination by the Chancellor to represent their respective ministries in His Majesty's Cabinet, an executive organ that acts as an advisory body to the Chancellor and the Government. On the other hand, Ministerial secretaries – who are the chief executives of their ministries and hold seniority in this respect to the Ministers, even though they are not members of the Cabinet – are public servants nominated by the Chancellor and confirmed by the Imperial Senate. Secretarial nominees are expected to be experienced and competent in the field for which their ministry operates. A Minister cannot concurrently be a Secretary, and vice versa, as the Imperial Constitution prohibits Members of Congress from holding positions in the Cygnian Civil Service.

Since 1975, by statutory specification, the cabinet constituted a line of succession to the Chancellorship, after the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate, in the event of a vacancy in both the Chancellorship and Vice Chancellorship.

Executive Ministries of the present

All ministries are listed by their present-day name.

The order of succession includes:

1. the Vice Chancellor as the first in line;
2. the Speaker of the House; and
3. the President of the Senate.

Ministry	Creation	Order of succession	Notes	2016 Outlays in billions of sovereigns	Employees
Foreign Affairs	1792	4		47.4	48,500
Treasury	1792	5		53.7	89,639
Justice	1792	7	Originally named the "Attorney-General's Ministry"	11.8	89,532
Agriculture and Resources	1889	9		14.33	7,259
Commerce	1903	10	Originally named the "Ministry of Commerce and Labour"; Labour later separated	15.77	43,880
Workforce Development	1913	11	Initially named the "Ministry of Labour"	137.97	17,347
Veterans' Affairs	1917	12	Originally known as the "Ministry of Repatriation"	5.62	5,723
Health	1921	13		82.35	67,000
Communications and the Arts	1943	14	Originally named the "Ministry of Communications"	28.29	18,692
Defence	1947	6	Created by the National Security Act of 1947 from a merger of the Ministries of the Army, Navy and Air Force	580.48	2,854,300
Housing and Urban Development	1965	15		15.59	7,820
Transportation	1966	16		3.34	6,235
Environment	1970	17		37.25	8,529
Chancellor and Cabinet	1971	–	Is not included in line of succession as minister responsible is the Chancellor	0.147	10,000
Energy	1972	18		10.31	4,487
Immigration and Border Protection	1975	19		34.2	8,506
Education	1989	8	First formed in 1867, but was dissolved and succeeded by the Ministry of Information and Education in 1934. This ministry was divided into the Ministries of Education and Communication in 1943. The second Ministry of Education became the Ministry of Education and Youth Affairs in 1955. The current Ministry of Family and Youth Affairs was separated in 1989.	77.5	40,000
Family and Youth Affairs	1989	20		12.73	4,298
Infrastructure	2013	21	Separated from the Ministry of Transportation	10.77	2,739
Total outlays, employees:				1,179.547B	3,334,486

Note: In the Cygnian cancellarial line of succession, the Minister for Defence precedes the Attorney General. This is because the Ministry of Defence uses the Ministry of War's creation date as its own. The Minister for Education precedes the Minister for Agriculture and Resources because the Ministry of Education uses the date of its first creation (1867) as its own.

Seals

Seal of the Ministry of the Chancellor and Cabinet

Seal of the Ministry of Defence

Seal of the Ministry of Education

Seal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ministries of the past

Ministry	Dates of operation	Notes
Ministry of War	1792 – 1918	Split into the Ministry of the Army and Ministry of the Air Force after the creation of the Cygnian Imperial Air Force
Ministry of Commerce and Labour	1903 – 1913	Split into the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Labour
Ministry of the Army	1918 – 1947	Merged into the Ministry of Defence under the National Security Act of 1947
Ministry of the Navy	1798 – 1947
Ministry of the Air Force	1918 – 1947
Ministry of Information and Education	1934 – 1943	Split into the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Communications
Ministry of Education and Youth Affairs	1955 – 1989	Split into the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Family and Youth Affairs
Ministry of the Chancellor	1911 – 1971	Merged into the Ministry of the Chancellor and Cabinet
Ministry of the Cabinet	1968 – 1971