User blog comment:EvanDude345rv5/Fairy Tail 337 : R.I.P Fairy Tail/@comment-77.195.192.128-20130630083736/@comment-7418318-20130630114127

I'm not yet convinced that the council is more powerful than the government (unless you mean literal power, rather than political power).

Sure the council is authorized to keep watch over all things regarding magic, but we don't know whether the council forced the government to go along with this arrangement, if the government was the one who came up with the idea of a magic council or if they were both created together when the country was founded and are intertwined or equal rather than one standing above the other.