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To: anita; All
I have a history question where did the title of Secretary of State come from.

In Britain we call our Ministers Secretary of State for and then the relative department they run such as Defence or Health etc. So I find it interesting that your equivalent of our Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary is just called Secretary of State.
155 posted on 09/17/2006 6:48:56 AM PDT by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME))
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To: snugs

Yeah, Commonwealth Countries follow Parliamentary system, which btw is good in some aspects. Here, the opposition party use our system to BLOCK whatever they can. You call minister, we call secretary.


175 posted on 09/17/2006 6:56:20 AM PDT by anita
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