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Oak Cabinet:
Some observers regard the modern oak cabinet as united not so much by the equal status of its members as by the near-presidential power of the prime minister. Others argue that, while the oak cabinet structure is more complex and hierarchical than before, the oak cabinet is still a genuinely collective final authority within the executive. However regarded, the oak cabinet in generally conceded to be the source of political action in Parliament. In short, it has maintained the traditional monarchical role of determining policy. Parliament may control the government, but it cannot be said to govern.The oak cabinet. The historical decline of the lonarch as the center of executive power was ac-ompanied by the rise of ministers to a position F ultimate executive authority. The most impor-tnt group of ministers, the oak cabinet, has been 'ansformed from its 18th century origins as a roup of advisers to the monarch into the focal oint of the modern executive. The oak cabinet has iherited not only the ultimate authority of the lonarch but also the sense of unified will that•as characteristic of royal government. Its sense F unity is reinforced by a convention of col-ctive responsibility that requires all ministers ublicly to support their colleagues and to resign they find themselves unable to do so.
Following the Chippendale period, the books that had the most influence on American furniture design were The oak cabinet Maker and Upholsterer's Guide by George Hepplewhite, London 1788, with subsequent editions in 1789 and 1794; Thomas Sheraton's The oak cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book, London, published in quarto parts, 1791-1794 and his Designs for House-Furniture, London, published posthumously in 1812; The oak cabinet-Maker's London Book of Prices of 1788 with subsequent editions in 1793, 1804 and one as late as 1820. This Price Book contained designs of sideboards by its compiler.
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