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By «Council of State» is understood the ministry, which the
king chooses of his own free will, but virtually he has no more
liberty in this respect in Norway than in other countries where
there is parliamentary government.
The members of the council of state must be Norwegian citizens
at least 30 years of age. Besides the ministers of state, the council
is composed of eight councillors of state, two of whom, without
portfolios, alternating each year, reside at Stockholm. The six
other councillors are each, according to an arrangement approved
by the king, at the head of a department of the ministry at
Kristiania.
All the councillors shall be present at the ordinary and
extraordinary meetings of the council of state. The minister who has
charge of an affair, reports to the king only in full council. (As
to the affairs subject to another treatment, see below.) All the
ministers present shall express their opinion, if they do not agree
with the minister in charge of the report. He who is silent is
considered to have given his assent.
The minister of state residing at Kristiania (president of the
council) and the six ministers with portfolios form the «Norwegian
government», to which are delegated very extensive powers so long
as the king is absent from Norway. This government decides,
in the kings name, on the less important matters and even on
those of great importance, if they are urgent. The minister
of state residing at Stockholm and the two councillors without
portfolios form a separate section of the Norwegian council of
state, with whom the king decides on the affairs that have not
been settled by the government at Kristiania.
As a general rule the minister in charge presents a report in
writing to the Norwegian government, which prepares a collective
report and despatches it to the secretariate of the section in
Stockholm, where the king decides upon it. The members of this section
shall give their opinion on the affair under the same responsibility
as the members of the government at Kristiania.
No Norwegian matter may be resolved upon by the king
without the advice of the Norwegian government, unless the urgency
of the affair demands a prompt decision. The section of the
Norwegian council of state residing at Stockholm is in a
constitutional sense considered as a complete council of state when the
king is outside the boundaries of Norway.
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