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The History of the Department of State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

Gaillard Hunt
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Although the Constitution did not provide in terms for the creation of Executive Departments of the Government, it spoke of them as things which would be established as a matter of course.

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American Journal of International Law , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , July 1908 , pp. 591 - 606
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1908 

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References

1 Writings of Madison (Hunt), III, 195.

2 Ibid., IV, 234.

3 Writings of Madison (Hunt), IV, 242.

4 Annals of Cong., 1st Cong., vol. 1, p. 368 et seq.

5 Pierce’s notes. Am. Hist. Rev., III, 333.

6 His essay against the Society of the Cincinnati was translated into French by Mirabeau, and quoted in the French Assembly.

7 U. S. Senate MS. archives. The archives of the House covering this period were destroyed by the British in the war of 1812.

8 U. S. Senate MS. archives.

9 Annals of Cong., I, 659.

10 Stats, at Large, 28.

11 Annals of Cong., I, 666.

12 There was no lesser seal then, nor was one ever authorized.

13 1 Stats, at Large, 68.

14 Id., 97.

15 Id., 67.

16 Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay, III, 369.

17 Department of State MS. archives.

18 Department of State MS. archives.

19 Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay, III, 381.

20 Department of State MS. archives.