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Affairsofstate and affairs of the home estate alike were most often managed by ambitious professionals.
The caretaker cabinets that administer the affairsofstate while negotiations proceed generally have no authority to take major policy initiatives.
The business of government was a preserve for the intellectuals and upper middleclass experts who would manage the affairsofstate in the public interest.
For ages, human rights transgressions and adjudication were essentially internal affairsofstate.
Virtually all modern commentators have taken 'politics' to mean references to kings, princes, and affairsofstate.
All these parts must be close to the magnificence seen in public buildings, because in these houses there are often gatherings dealing with the affairsofstate.
It will not be the great affairsofstate but the little things that people cannot understand.
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