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This Day in Legal History: The First Executive Department
On July 27, 1789, President George Washington signed the act establishing the Department of Foreign Affairs—the first executive department created under the brand-new Constitution, and the direct ancestor of today’s State Department, which was renamed a few weeks later. It’s easy to overlook, but this was a foundational moment: the First Congress was building the executive branch essentially from scratch, deciding what federal administration would actually look like in practice.
The most consequential part of the debate wasn’t the…
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