ChapterXXII+-Concerning+The+Secretaries+Of+Princes

When reading this you find out that ministers of the prince play very important role for the prince. "The choice of ministers is of no small importance to a prince..."

The minister's decisions reflect the choices of the prince, seeing as how the ministers are chosen and placed into their office by the prince. If the choices of the prince are faulty then the minister will be expected to have faulty ideas as well. Looking at this we also see that choices, faulty or not, do not start with the prince. How did the prince come to power? The people.

The prince's ministers are the equivelent to our presidents cabnet. The president decides who is on the cabinet and what each person does. We have all witnessed good choices made by the president: [|Source 1]

...and bad choices: [|Source 2]