1. Permutation: do the counterplan. The CP is a way the aff could be implemented. “United States federal government” includes independent branches within the government.
Words & Phrases 4. Judicial constructions and definitions of words and phrases by the State and Federal courts from the earliest times, alphabetically arranged and indexed., 2004. Cumulative Supplementary Pamphlet, v. 16A, p. 42. Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via Westlaw. The same quotation is also available here: https://casetext.com/case/griffin-v-united-states-postal-service-2
N.D.Ga. 1986. Action against the Postal Service, although an independent establishment of the executive branch of the federal government, is an action against the "Federal Government" for purposes of rule that plaintiff in action against government has right to jury trial only where right is one of terms of government's consent to be sued; declining to follow Algernon Blair Industrial Contractors, Inc. v. Tennessee Valley Authority, 552 F.Supp. 872 (M.D.Ala.). 39 U.S.C.A. 201; U.S.C.A. Const.Amend. 7.--Griffin v. U.S. Postal Service, 635 F.Supp. 190.--Jury 12(1.2).