United States Federal Council

The Federal Council of the United States (: Bundesrat der Vereinigten Staaten; : Consejo Federal de los Estados Unidos Norte-Egeos; : Conseil fédéral des États-Unis de l'Egée du Nord), colloquially known as "[the] Bundesrat", is the eighteen-member council which constitutes the supreme federal authority of the United States and serves as the United States' collective head of state, of which the chief Executive of each State is a member ("Governor" in every State but Hawaiʻi, which instead has a King), and the Bundesrat is presided by the Governor-General of the United States, who, by virtue of that office also serves as President of the United States Federal Council, and by extent as President of the United States, but he (or she) has no vote unless they be equally divided; however, the President of the United States is a primus inter pares (first among equals) among the members of the Federal Council.

The Federal Council has a number of executive, legislative, and judicial powers, all of which are enumerated in great detail in Article II-E of the United States Constitution.

While the entire Bundesrat is responsible for leading the Federal Commission of the United States, each Member is vested with responsibility for one of the eighteen federal executive directorates-general.