GUBERNATOR, civil law. A pilot or steersman of a ship. 2 Pet. Adm. Dec. Appx. lxxxiii.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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The prehistory of the term can be traced back at least to Plato where kybernetes meaning "steersman" or "governor" (from the Latin gubernator)--the same root as government--was used to refer to governing of the city-state as an art, based on the metaphor of the art of navigation or steering a ship.

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(4) The term gubernator (equivalent to the Greek kubernetes) applies, as here, metaphorically in the sense of governor in the political context.

The rule of reason in Cicero's philosophy of law

After winning an election to the governership of California and serving a seven-year term -- where he earned the nickname "The Gubernator" -- he is back on the entertainment circuit promoting an animated series of the same name about the adventures of a comic book alter ego.

Schwarzenegger says owes success to US, people's touch

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