{"id":361472,"date":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/dictionary\/definition\/government.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","slug":"government","status":"publish","type":"dictionary","link":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/government.html","title":{"rendered":"Government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"fl-index-heading\">\n    <p>term:<\/p>\n    <h1 class=\"fl-h1 fl-mb20\"><\/h1>\n\n    <dl class=\"fl-index-heading-description-list\">\n            <dt class=\"fl-mb10\"><p class=\"fl-text-bold\">n<\/p><\/dt>\n        <dd><p><b>1<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> the act or process of governing <br \/>  <i>;specif<\/i><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> authoritative direction or control <br \/>  <b>2<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> the office, authority, or function of governing <br \/>  <b>3<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> the continuous exercise of authority over and the performance of functions for a political unit <br \/>  <b>:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/rule.html\">rule <\/a> <br \/>  <b>4 a<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> the organization, machinery, or agency through which a political unit exercises authority and performs functions and which is usually classified according to the distribution of power within it <br \/>  <b>b<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> the complex of political institutions, laws, and customs through which the function of governing is carried out <br \/>  <b>5<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> the body of persons that constitutes the governing authority of a political unit or organization: as <br \/>  <b>a<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> the officials comprising the governing body of a political unit and constituting the organization as an active agency <br \/>  <b>b<\/b>  <i>cap<\/i><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> the executive branch of the U.S. federal government <br \/>  <b>c<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> the prosecution in a criminal case in its capacity as agents of the political unit &#91;the failed to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt&#93; <br \/>  <b><i>  gov&#183;ern&#183;men&#183;tal   <i>adj<\/i><br \/>  <\/b><\/i><br \/>  <b><i>  gov&#183;ern&#183;men&#183;tal&#183;ly   <i>adv<\/i><br \/>  <\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n    <div class=\"fl-index-heading-source\">Source: Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Dictionary of Law \u00a91996. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is &#8216;Government&#8217;? Learn more about legal terms and the law at FindLaw.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":358119,"menu_order":0,"template":"app\/Http\/Controllers\/Templates\/DictionaryArticleController.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","_autodraft_ids":[],"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","_is_real_time_mode":false,"_realtime_collaborators":"","cf_checklist_status":[]},"dictionary_tags":[],"class_list":["post-361472","dictionary","type-dictionary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/361472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dictionary"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/358119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dictionary_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_tags?post=361472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}